skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A company basing the choice of its tools on their name deserves to go out of business.
He performed at the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear, playing peace train across from Ozzy Osborne playing crazy train.
You could tell _exactly_ what it was loading...
I used one a couple of years ago for image processing. TIFF stitching workloads were still a "go get a cup of coffee" timescale but it was amazingly fast for everything else.
The circle algorithm seems to come from the trigonometric identities with small value approximations for b -> 0. ie. cos(b)~=1 and sin(b)~=b.

sin(a+b)=sin(a)cos(b)+cos(a)sin(b)

cos(a+b)=cos(a)cos(b)-sin(a)sin(b)
Maybe you want the rear wheels driving under acceleration if accelerating in a straight line is the only metric your optimising for.

I'll argue front wheel drive is better / safer for most driving situations most people find themselves in, especially in slippery conditions, on wet or dirt roads.
Why does SEC compliance exist? It's because people are born suckers.

Very few people need what Ethereum is offering, a lot of people want to be millionaires before they've done anything, and they're willing to lie, scam, and exaggerate to get that. Is not part of the lesson of 2008 is that if you build your economy on sand, it's gonna collapse?
Can you explain the 3x Nvidia 710s? The only reasoning I can think of is running ~6 monitors silently, but the heatsink-only cards aren't usually used in prebuilts so I'm a little confused.
> "All of these fucking leadership principles from all these organizations: *where is integrity?!" - Bryan Cantrill

Hear, hear!
Working link:

https://techcrunch.com/2016/08/19/mysql-founder-tries-a-new-...
Looks like this should be a link to this 2016 article:

https://techcrunch.com/2016/08/19/mysql-founder-tries-a-new-...

Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12325276
This is like the Euler's identity of Silicon Valley buzzwords.
Drugs are illegal almost everywhere in the world and they are one of the largest consumer markets. Something similar happens to US dollars in Venezuela. So I don't know if making bitcoin illegal will really hurt its value in the long run.
Government isn't a singular entity, so it's meaningless to point out that "war" is not it's singular priority. Government as a whole inherently has mixed priorities, because it is a collection of individuals, each with his/her own unique priorities.

It is, however, reasonable to consider the United States' $600 billion per year spending on "defense" as evidence that fighting wars is a major priority.
I was hoping they'd choose DBaaS. But I get it. How do you really compete when you'd ultimately probably have to run your operation on cloud providers' infrastructure.

The "open core" model in open source has always felt like a "poor man's acquihire" to me.
North Korea Missile Test Visualization
Would you please keep this sort of topical ideological boilerplate off HN? It isn't interesting except to a small minority of users who enjoy sniping back and forth about repetitive things.

This is an example of why we added the following to the HN guidelines:

Eschew flamebait. Don't introduce flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
How to access Facebook accounts
Pls help me
I guess sell it. People think it's valuable. Cryptocurrencies are priced not valued. You can't just go Dogecoin is valued at X. Dogecoin is priced based on supply and demand which is saying it's worth $91MM.
> Certain subjects depend on quality, clear illustrations... the diagrams seemed fuzzy. I thought it was just me though. I'm a first edition collector, and have a huge library.

This is exactly the kind if situation where digital hi-res screens and zoomable vector diagrams as presentation formats are immensely superior to paper print. You're a collector and hence holding on to print editions because of nostalgia. We're however hobbled from evolving high quality modern documentation by being tired to "printability" like pdfs and Tex
Yep. There's a deeply embedded mentality even amongst most social liberals in the US that poverty and moral/personal failure must go together, and thus we need to tell poor people how they're allowed to spend what little we're willing to give them. See also "but what if I give them some money and they use it to buy booze?" Heck, if I was homeless I know I'd want a drink.

But then on the flip side, we'll also spin the blame around on whoever else is available too. So maybe it's just that it's easier to blame than to fix. "Big business" got Brazil hooked on junk food -- not like good ol' America, where we got hooked on junk food back when it was still small business!
Anyone here have experience regarding Dell or Lenovo workstations? Which should I get?
I hope you don't need USB 3 for anything then.
But the government only gets around to regulating something after it's done it's damage.

Then lobbyists eventually get the regulations weakened enough for a round two.

At least with cryptocurrencies, no one should have the illusion that somehow the government will prevent a collapse or bail them out. Unless, of course, they are "too big to fail".
> it seems they

Mods didn't touch the post; it was flagged by users.

We sometimes turn off flags in such cases but there needs to be substantive new information. In this case the article was an opinion piece (though a well-written one).
Electron apps /s

Image processing needs as many cores and RAM as you can give it, and local will beat AWS-esque until we get fiber everywhere.
Question:

Bitcoin is a global cryptocurrency. Sure it has a first-mover advantage but so does Google. Today someone searches with google, tomorrow they may switch to Bing. Can't the same be said of Bitcoin and say Litecoin / Dogecoin / whatever? So why is Bitcoin worth more than Litecoin let's say? Both are accepted by Coinbase etc.
That is what I have here in the US. And most people I know do the same or some variation.
Serverless Framework for AWS Step Functions
My solution is make a site called credit.gov

This would be the final say in any credit accounts, accounts not listed here are not legal debt (ie they cannot be collected or sued for)

You can still use SSN for identification but authorization would require more. I imagine maybe a few different levels of security:

1. Password (or list of passwords) you can set/change in person at any post office. The company adding the credit account would need this password to register the debt.

2. Yubikey or other auth token you can register at the post office to create one time passwords for companies creating credit accounts.

3. Every new credit account requires physical confirmation at the post office.

Then just setup really good cameras (maybe face scanner or biometric scanner) at every post office and make it like a 10 year felony to impersonate someone at the post office. The scammers will be out of the system very quickly.
I don't see that as misleading. The most successful EV has been an extremely expensive one. There hasn't been a market for truly cheap EVs.

This is probably because EVs are amazing if you're a well-off suburban home owner who can charge at home, and still OK if you're a well-off urbanite with charging stations at work and in your building, and practically useless if you're a less-well-off renter in an older apartment building. So you have range anxiety hurting the cheap ones for the well-off set, and feasibility blocking all of them for the not-as-well-off set.
$150K CAD is higher than the vast majority of jobs. But it's only about $120K USD (and was a lot worse at the start of the year). Senior level salaries at the big tech companies run about $250K before factoring in stock and performance bonuses. The top guys are clearing close to half a million USD all compensation considered, and they're really the equivalent of your $150K in Canada. So 2-3x is conservative if anything.
> Could be a solid strategy compared to the competition.

I thought the same, but from a different angle. Traditional channels with commercials can be monetized by Amazon in a way the rest of the big 5 can't. Watching a commercial on an Amazon channel for a new brand of chips? "Alexa, get me some of those chips". Amazon knows what you're watching, what the commercial is, where you live, has your payment information, and has the fulfillment infrastructure. Boom. Buy the commercial, get your new chips in 2 days.

By turning commercials into trackable purchase events, Amazon might be able to better monetize traditional, commercial-ridden television than any other player. That includes existing cable providers (!).
I bought a Thinkpad from 2011, because I can't see myself wanting more than that from a laptop.

The only place it is lacking is the display: 1366x768 feels pretty low-res these days. Video playback has some minor screen-splitting, too.

Still, for browsing the web, watching <=1080p video, and hacking on some software projects, this old thing is more than capable.

> I imagine with Linux it might not be too bad.

Of course, that's a requirement. ;) NixOS is near perfection.
The first one is an API, this is a script, it also allows you to select title for the media if the search string you provided has multipoe match or doesn't match - as well as a silent mode for suppressing the prompts. It also supports allsubdb site and is going to support other sites too. There alot of other things like supporting subtitles downloading for a complete directory.

About second one,
Read here:-
https://github.com/RafayGhafoor/Subscene-Subtitle-Grabber/is...
External Graphics Development Kit for MacBook
Only if they want to modify it and not give back. If people want to use the code as is AGPL doesn't really help.
It can be done. Dedicated tenancy is generally required, and your auditor needs to be on board with it.
Well, the idea was that they sorted the wheat from the chaff, published only the good stuff, and therefore saved you time. I'm not sure how effective they currently are at providing this service, though.
I don't think you've worked a lot with numpy. Matrix indexing is a nightmare in numpy and the documentation for just it is 3 pages long.
This is also how HashSet is implemented in Rust (internally its a HashMap<T, ()>, and zero sized structs are optimized out just like Go).

But by providing a set type, Rust is able to provide for users various set operations which Go requires you to write by hand. It becomes hard to argue that a set is simpler than a slice when you have to write your own methods dealing with union, disjunction, intersection, difference, subsets/supersets, etc every time.
Book publishers have definitely tried to fight libraries before though, in the past couple hundred year history of libraries. Buying a book and then loaning it to _hundreds_ of people who would otherwise have bought it themselves was viewed as stealing from publisher/author profits. I think in some/many countries libraries still actually pay licensing fees to publishers? (similar to what/how radio stations do in the U.S.). The "first sale doctrine" that's part of copyright law in the U.S. says once you buy a book you have the right to loan that book out, give it away, resell it used, or even lease it out if you want -- but the first sale doctrine is particular to the US.
Powered extensions work just fine, I use 10m active cables with no issue.
Wordpress itself depends on its ecosystem of plugins to make it so powerful. React is no different. There are 40,000 packages on NPM for React. That's something no other JS library comes close to save for JQuery. That does matter. I think Vue may very well get there some day. It's just not there yet. Maybe the WordPress support would be enough to take it mainstream.
This likely should be a Show HN if it meets the guidelines:

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
+1 for GitUp. Only annoyance is that it can be slow when staging/unstaging lots of files.
Paternalist liberal arguments versus beverage lobbies and PR firms will indeed ring hollow and have failed. Rather than merely advocate for curbs, and lose, I would like to see the Nestle type companies prosecuted for responsibility for the negative health outcomes, and then we adjudicate the relative responsibility of 'free' consumers purchasing products known to be toxic (as will likely be surfaced during discovery of internal lab tests alongside public health studies) compared to the selling corporations. As is, the Nestles, and their ownership entities, corner both cheap unhealthy and more costly healthier foods -- effectively playing the spread of the income and wit of their customers.

Few Republicans have the candor to accuse the poor of sloth outright, instead indirectly consigning them to the oblivion of work requirements and the cheap food products low wages can buy.

I do sympathize with the mothers I see on the L fobbing off screaming children with high fructose corn syrup -- and I seek a betterment of their condition, and my own, not by leaving them solely to their own devices, but by assigning responsibility to the more powerful actors here and seeking state restraint as the remedy with sufficient scale and force to succeed.

Advertising can conceal the entire toolbox of dissimulation, hence the coordinated efforts to undermine regulation limiting the hocking of known toxicities. The market drive to eat will find and create food within the bounds of law, as it does, to such horrifying effect in Brazil as the United States.
I guess that's true if learning that Jamie Dimon thought it was a bubble moved a lot of people to sell their bitcoin.
Yes, that explains why it's correct to first order.

But the mystery is that experimentally it's more correct than that. Why does it seem to join up with itself exactly after 360°, and not spiral slightly inward or outward due to accumulated error? Why does it stop working if you use a temporary variable so that x and y are updated simultaneously instead of alternately?
The pair of equations can be expressed succinctly as

y -= x >> 4;
x += y >> 4;

and is basically a very rough approximation of a step in the CORDIC[1] algorithm, which computes the sin and cos of an angle by rotating a vector; it's then quite natural that successive rotations would trace out an approximation to a circle.

As such, many of the first programs of the PDP-1 were “Display hacks”: Programs using only a few lines of code, but when run, create intricate patterns on the screen.

The demoscene has carried on that tradition, and in particular the sub-512b categories produce very interesting graphics from tiny programs.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CORDIC
Except that normally a new feature does not involve creating a new system. Technical debt significantly impacts velocity of implementing new features in the future.
There are a few coins that offer complete privacy. XMR, Pivx, ZCoin. Just to name a few.
This seems a bit of a puzzling list...

1) What specifically of Japanese philosophy informs Ellison's approach? What has either Ellison or Japanese philosophy to do with agile or its complement? What is the meaning of "emotional excess"?

2) Why would one think of "Microsoft in the 90s" together with "destruction and failure"? The 90s were an incredibly successful time for Microsoft. Why must TWC, Pfizer, et al., be destroyed? Because some folks don't like large, dominant, somewhat pathological organizations?

3) "Upgrading Oracle's products"--does this happen? Isn't Oracle's approach the the diametrical opposite of a consumer hardware company that sells on product strength and style?
Ok, maybe we can replace the lot of them with a website. But the way I see it, collaboration platforms like Wikipedia, Facebook, and GitHub are valuable, and someone has to maintain the website. I wouldn't agree that this problem is "capital-s Solved", and it certainly isn't solved by piracy.
Why is this only a problem in the US?

I think that one of the reasons is that the US does not have a central government registry of all the people.

In Austria, we have the „Melderegister“. Every person that stays in Austria is required to register the address of their current residence. Your name and address is always in this registry, from the day you are born until you die (foreigners residing in Austria are also required to register).

Everything relies on this registry — voting rights, taxes, etc.

I think that Banks can check this register to verify your address. So even if an identity thief is successful in applying for a credit card, that credit card would be mailed to the victims actual address, so the identity thief would have to intercept postal mail as well.

So many problems that I read about in the US (using utiliy bills to proof you are a resident, registering to vote) just sound like a clumsy workaround to the fact that there is no „Melderegister“.
A quick look shows that in 2002, we were using Pentium 4's and Athlon XP's, single core, around 1500-2000mhz.

Until I could afford to buy a PC, that's the class of hardware I used.

Just pick your favorite Linux distro, and they will run like new.

It's also worth noting that Arch Linux started in 2002. That's the distro I settled on back then (NixOS wasn't around yet ;).
Running WD Reds in my Synology (DS415play/4TB drives), and I can tell when the nightly backup starts because I hear the drives pick up. Granted I'm only a couple of feet away, and only notice when the room is otherwise silent, but definitely audible.
They weren't trying to convince people beyond their existing audience. They're talking to the academic publishing audience, for whom these terms are quite standard.

Because when it comes down to it, "Hacker News thinks this is swell" doesn't actually matter.
+1, up thumb or whatever the current thing is.

Having spent my life in networking tech, Tcl...please die.
'Mėnulis' means 'the Moon' in Lithuanian. No getting away from our language :)
Is this some kind of contest in missing the point?
The reason it's misleading is that the cost of batteries is falling dramatically 14-16% per year. This headline will leave people with the opposite impression... that battery costs are going up. I clicked on it because I was like... what the heck? the cost of cars is falling (think model 3) Then it basically reverse course and explains that battery costs per KWh are falling but doesn't really explain why the costs went up... because the most popular cars were in different classes.
If you run algorithms from sklearn or just plain numpy it would make great use of the CPU. I was surprised to see the CPU just as useful as the GPU, maybe even more, in my ML projects.
Two thoughts:

- Most of the journals I publish in do a considerable amount of layout, and I find this to be a significant value in reading papers.

- At least one of the academic societies I'm in is essentially financially dependent on the income they make from allowing $Publisher to publish their society journal. My corner of science would be considerably worse off if that was dropped.
Especially considering the petabytes of tape they use.
But how many FPS with Minecraft? Can I play Civ6 on a huge world without waiting forever...

Tounge firmly pressed in cheek..
The net value of doing additional mining is that the payment that you accept as a merchant is that much harder to undo by an attacker.

If you accept that a bank vault that has one guard is made more secure by adding another guard you must accept that adding miners to a PoW chain makes it more robust against attackers -- this is the value.
These drones can plant 100,000 trees a day
Fix your friends list. Consider one of these groups to keep it small and not-fake.

People you’ve:

- shared a roof with overnight

- been in their home or had them over

- shared a meal with (by invitation, not bumped into)

Don’t let FB water down your personal definition of ‘friend’.
Don't we have an obligation to follow the laws of the land we live in? I see no more philosophical justification for physical property than for intellectual property.

In the same way that we have some folk intuitions about the validity of ownership of property, we have them about intellectual property. Namely, we (the citizen of the western world) have an intuition that creators of intellectual works should have some say in how
their work is exploited.

When it comes to the abstraction required to create a system of property, the one that strikes me a the most bonkers is the concept that people can "own" a geographic section of the earth.
Will state actors abuse their ability to tap providers on their shoulder and siphon the data? Yes

Will consumers use such technology increasingly more, esp as cost and availability of it increases? Yes.

Will non state actors have eve more ability to use/exploit such tech for their own purposes? Yes.

What people will do combat such? Who knows, though I know showing up to a voting booth wont change much in the scheme of things…
>'mining' consumers power and resources is a total waste

Driving a cash truck to merchants, to pick up cash, to take back to a bank, to be counted by a physical machine, to update a database in a bank server is also a 'total waste'.

Just because the waste is hidden in the old financial system doesn't mean it's 'less wasteful'

Ce qu'on voit et ce qu'on ne voit pas
Is it very noisy?
It took me a bit to figure out what you could be talking about. Rust does not insert runtime checks like this of anything by default except for boundschecking on indexing operation.

You must mean that you stored your `CounterWidget` in a RefCell, which does have the semantics that if you mutate it while holding a mutable reference to it, it will crash. But your code sample didn't include a RefCell at all, so this is very unclear.

Yes, its true - Rust provides a hard guarantee against simultaneous mutable access to the same data. This is invaluable even in a non-concurrent context, both because of memory issues like iterator invalidation & higher level logic errors that result from silent mutation at a distance.

I can assume looking at your code that didClick() doesn't mutate this CounterWidget - or even access it. This means I know that if I rearrange the counter increment with the didClick callback, I know nothing is semantically different. I can introduce additional code to the function, knowing that the state is the same after didClick as before it. All of this information is very useful to me when I'm trying to maintain this codebase (not to mention useful to the optimizer).

If you want to be able to provide mutable access to the callback, just make it an `fn(&mut CounterWidget)`.
But the article suggests that software developers should understand what customers are saying and gives several suggestions on how to do that.
I've worked a lot with numpy (hundreds to thousands of hours, depending exactly what you count). I've also worked with numerical arrays in several other languages, and of those I've tried I've found numpy the cleanest and simplest.

What specifically do you see as nightmarish?
But a company that ignores marketing actually will go out of business.
People successfully short cryptocurrencies every day and reputable exchanges pay out, even during massive drops. If you really want to short, sign up at GDAX and enable margin trading.
Thank you for pointing this out. I have chronic SI joint problems, and people always think I should be standing. Would not help.
The short answer is yes. That being said, you have to ask yourself if that's the most pressing issue your site has. Almost certainly it is not.