skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
my company shared an office with the Jewelbots team and I was very impressed at the user testing they did. The bracelet is a great user-programmable product for 8-14 year olds, which is really a difficult age group to design for.
Mozilla gives $100k to fund Antifa email
AI has a significant edge in micro and mechanics in BW that is much less significant in SC2.
One wonders how "real" this announcement is and how much of it is positioning. The press releases from TSMC isn't very informative[1].

As interesting as it is to consider that someone might actually be putting money on the table today, given the pains people seem to be having with the 7nm node I would not expect to see even a 5nm node until 2022 - 2023.

That said, if they do get to a 3nm node, assuming that actual circuit elements are 3 - 9nm that is still a lot of billion transistor chips on a wafer. I'm guessing 30% of the wafer would be consumed with die pads rather than actual chip :-)

[1] http://www.tsmc.com/uploadfile/pr/newspdf/THWQGOHITH/NEWS_FI...
This was the strategy that Apple followed when OS X first came out.

Third party developers were moving slowly (or not at all) so Apple started developing and giving away (or selling) apps that showed off what you could do with the new platform.

They developed Safari when Microsoft lost interest in further development of Internet Explorer. The iLife suite had iTunes, iCal, iMovie, iPhoto, iDVD, iWeb and GarageBand. The iWork suite had Numbers, Pages, and Keynote. They created (or bought) professional apps like Logic Pro, Final Cut, Shake, Motion and Aperture.

If you have a new platform and third party developers don't step up, then you need to start filling those holes yourself in a way that shows off your platform's advantages, and keep at it.
More and more grateful my nutty "Sovereign Citizen" parents never got me a social security number
agreed. Single-core, it looks like the i7 is the winner for now.
In my experience, rejection letters don't ever feel better. I've had plenty.

This also looks like you are doing it wrong. The mass of rejection letters have many grammar and spelling mistakes. They tend to be poorly written.

I don't even open them. The preview is all the information I need.
Hi! We're a 5 person team located in NYC. I'm the marketing team (plus my cofounder Brooke). This is all super helpful feedback, thank you!
Plants produce food: starch and sugars (and a bit of protein). We're not modifying the levels of those.

The apple case is about modifying the levels of an enzyme, polyphenol oxidase [1]. But that is not what plant-eaters are interested in. They're interested in the food in an apple, not some enzyme levels.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyphenol_oxidase
In Australia there’s an online ordering platform called MenuLog who also charge a commission. I’m not sure if Grubhub or Seamless do this, but MenuLog will also purchase a domain and set up a cookie cutter site for all restaurants that sign up. They will also push this site high up in Google search results with SEO, which sounds great, but all loyal customers who are searching for the restaurant end up on this site, which links to their online ordering platform. So restaurants end up paying a commission for orders from loyal customers who would have gone straight to the restaurant. We’ve also seen phone numbers purposely omitted in these cookie cutter sites as they can’t earn a commission from phone orders.
4 espressoa day in various forms: 2 lungo or double espresso + cappuccino
As a huge fan of erlang/elixir I'm glad to read this.
How about start-ups? If employers have access to your salary history in terms of a taxable compensation number but no access to information on what your options were this seems to suggest that employers will discriminate against start-up workers who traded off compensation, since their automated HR look-up would be unwilling to give someone the big raise related to not having equity and working in big corp.
I think that QueryDSL on top of JPA on Scala is just about as good as it gets.

It is also complex and requires that you really master all the ingredients... If SQL is a mystery to you, it will just be a painful experience.
You have to start wondering if they will use quantum behaviour like Anderson localisation that sets up a standing wave effectively stopping electrons from tunnelling in certain places (design it to bias against and/or stop gate leak tunnelling). Svitlana Mayboroda discovered a lanscape function that allows you to predict (and hence design) this kind of behaviour. As to how actively using these kinds of quantum behaviour affects feature size / speeds / feeds / yields will probably eat several tens of millions / years as well.
Thanks so much for your feedback! Sounds like we have some things to add to the FAQ!

Jewelbots can be programmed just like an Arduino using C++. Real code! Because we believe that kids are super smart (Also, I starting writing C++ at 11).
> In TFA Houston wants $400 million to build a reservoir. They seem to acknowledge that things are only going to get worse for them as the years go on. And yet everyone there still drives everywhere spewing carbon into their own air with every trip, public transit is in a poor state, and oil exploitation continues apace. Everyone's OK with spending money and manpower on huge public works projects, but they're not OK with addressing habits and addictions that make the projects necessary in the first place.

It sucks to have to drive for miles to get anywhere in Houston. Public transportation is downright dangerous in Houston where the threat of violent crime is very high. It is not practical to arrive at work sweaty from walking or bicycling. Just being outside on a motorcycle moving at moderate speed causes intense perspiration within 10 minutes. Air conditioning is necessary. There is no alternative to the gasoline powered automobile because the city is planned so poorly. So you deal with it the only way you can by taking personal responsibility to ensure your own safety and comfort. Fundamentally the problem may be poor planning or that the government is dysfunctional and taxpayer money is squandered.
Not something I'll regret about. I'm looking forward to Librem 5 running Plasma Mobile with native Wayland and baseband separated from the CPU (they've just succeeded in crowdfunding).
It depends of whether your tasks are able to fill all cores with useful work all the time. Otherwise faster Intel would provide better value. I considered between ThreadRipper and 8700K and decided to go with Intel for the time. I can make use of ThreadRipper cores sometimes (project rebuild, reindexing, heavy multitasking with launching numerous VMs, IDEs, games at the same time), but 90% load will be on 1-2 cores and here Intel is clear winner, so having those 15 idling cores won't help that much in my case. Now difference between AMD and overclocked Intel is just too huge (30% or more), but I hope that with new Zens they'll be closer and it might be easier choice (if I would give up 10% of single-thread performance for 10 more cores, I would choose otherwise).
Ah! I created a very similar game as a school project (a few years ago) ! It was a 2nd year project, pardon the messy commits : https://github.com/fiahil/Zappy
The documentation has been saying that the zones in 0.9.2 will no longer work in 0.9.3. Can I assume that 0.9.3 is now "stable"?

Besides the fact that I have "thin" root zone in SmartOS and the fact that there are still a lot more images available for SmartOS, what things are there which would make you choose one over the other?

EDIT: vmadm allows kvm zones, does freebsd vmadm support bhyve as well? or is that not really possible?

EDIT2: thank you for your work
Reminds me of the Journal of Universal Rejection.

http://www.universalrejection.org/
A huge point of their approach is the hardware.
I was exactly thinking about this last night. It's bad that WhatsApp doesn't hide the online status.
I was able to reduce it to 0xe9 bytes and I'm getting:

clang-802.0.42 -O3 -march=native on a Core i7-4770HQ @ 2.20GHz:

branchless: 490.666725 MB/s, 0 errors
0xe9 small: 380.000045 MB/s, 0 errors
Hoehrmann: 337.333374 MB/s, 0 errors

With gcc 4.8.4 -O3 -march=native on a Xeon E5-1650v3 @ 3.50GHz:

branchless: 436.000052 MB/s, 0 errors
0xe9 small: 405.333382 MB/s, 0 errors
Hoehrmann: 412.000049 MB/s, 0 errors

https://pastebin.com/j7T3bDwR
Hi! We talked to over 200 girls when making this product, rest assured that every design decision was made with their feedback in mind.

Boys also love playing with Jewelbots, but there are already a lot of coding toys aimed at boys!!! Our market primarily identifies as female, but we'll broaden down the road.
K series provide faster boost rate, so they are faster without any overclocking. Also overclocking voids warranty, so I'm not sure if many buyers are really going to overclock it.
Yes, you are allowed to see what's in it. I remember checking my salary history a year ago. I was surprised at how detailed it was.
What do you think we’ve been trying to do? Read the Houston Chronicle or Houston Press.
It is great to see that SQL becomes one of the de facto standards of building streaming analytics applications.

Personally I'm not a big fan of KSQL, given that:

(1) KSQL is built on top of Kafka Stream. There are use cases that we don't think Kafka Stream is a good fit. Please see the explanations above

(2) Inventing yet another SQL dialect is a bad idea in practice. Not only it incurs additional learning curves, but more importantly you have few hopes winning in development velocity. Calcite has been used by Flink, Storm, Beam, Dremio, etc. The community is simply way bigger even compared to the total number of engineers in Confluent.

Again this is just my personal take it does not reflect the stands of Uber.
Rational self-interested bots engineered to maximise shareholder value.
Yes, this is true to an extent. But price is one of many factors that go into GitHub's design decisions for infrastructure planning. (I used to work on the Git Infrastructure team at GitHub, which is responsible for exactly this.) Nor is it the _first_ consideration. Price is important (obviously) but only after performance and resiliency.

Putting repositories on bare metal on-premises makes sense for GitHub's architecture. They run git itself, which is happiest packbuilding with as many IOPS as it can manage. But they've also built out a number of custom performance monitoring and load balancing applications, and any single Git repository is replicated across a number of servers using spokes, their custom Git load balancing system. They run on-premises because they've done a detailed analysis of their needs and hired a staff of developers and infrastructure experts to deliver it. And as a result, they're the world's largest Git hosting provider.

But you _can_ be perfectly happy in the cloud.

Visual Studio Team Services hosts its Git repositories in Azure. Since VSTS didn't start out hosting Git repositories, but Git repository management was added _after_ it already had a cloud-first architecture, it didn't make sense to host repositories on-disk. (Nor would relying on Git for Windows have been performant five years ago.) Instead, VSTS built out custom Git server implementation to take advantage of storing repositories in SQL Azure and Azure Blob Storage. And this implementation scales up to the needs of Microsoft's customers - both external and internal - who are hosting the world's largest Git repositories.

So I think that you can be happy on-premises _or_ in the cloud. I think it comes back 100% to your point that you need to hire for that expertise.
I think that they tested TR on some tests earlier, so they included test results if available. I guess, for gaming and workstation processors sets of tests are different, but with some intersections.
I've never had stock options to list; wouldn't those also be assets you need to declare on taxes?
Your comment mentioned salary specifically, not profit. Nobody should accuse mediawiki of charity because that's not what they claim to be. They are simply a company whose stated goal is not to make a profit. In that case it makes sense their salaries are high if we assume a positive correlation between salary and work completed.
No, I do not trust the entire set of root authorities provided by Mozilla. I have disabled some of the certs. The entire PKI system - as currently implemented - is another abuse of trust. The user needs to be informed about the chain-of-trust that is currently vouching the website they are using. The user also needs an easy way to indicate who they trust and the scope/limits of their trust. A proper web of trust[1] can respect the user.

[1] https://users.ece.cmu.edu/~adrian/630-f04/PGP-intro.html#p19
i guess we should invent a new english word for neither a male nor a female yet a human being... i'm not english so i don't know what's the usage.
You cannot patent the use of a really long salt. Thats like patenting hashing of any string longer than 2000 chars. Its a trivial operation. They may think they have a patent but I trust it not to hold up. Go build your own 12 TB pool of data to use for salting hashes. I trust theyll never find out or have any ground to sue you if they do.
Congratulations! I'm looking forward to the actual release. It's quite hard and risky however, and if anything, previous failed projects are an indication of how volatile all this is (like hardware partners pulling support in the middle of the development cycle and so on).

It would be great to have a device running Linux with native Wayland, and LTE modem separated from the CPU for better security. I just hope they'll go with i.MX 8M so it will be 64-bit.

How is etnaviv for it though? I also wonder what's the level of OpenGL support in it. I suppose Vulkan support isn't even started?
> and release them on the same day

That isn't necessary.

> without writing code twice

That isn't anywhere near as difficult as you make it out to be. Writing code is not difficult, or particularly time-consuming. Designing code is.

Most of the "updates" you are talking about are usually tuning OpenGL/Direct3D/etc. to run incorrectly to optimize for a specific proprietary game engine. Those updates are to the OpenGL/etc. implementation itself, not the communication with the kernel, meaning those changes will be similar, if not exactly the same in each driver, without any extra abstraction. Also remember that most of these AAA title games do not have Linux support in the first place, and many of them only support DirectX, which will not be implemented in the Linux driver.

Here in Linux, we care about FPS in proprietary game engines much less than correct working drivers.

> You're still thinking of drivers in the old-school thinking of implementing an existing ancient API that, once it works, only ever gets bugfixes.

It's true that graphics APIs (especially Vulkan) are continually changing, and that those changes must be implemented in each driver. That still does not mean it is significantly easier to write one implementation for windows, and just copy it to the Linux driver. In fact, those who work on Linux itself believe the opposite. It's also worth noting that Vulkan is meant to be so low-level that its implementations will likely be quite different between Windows and Linux.

> AMD has to compete with NVIDIA (which has a DAL!) with less developers, less money, and needs to provide the same functionality.

If AMD works with the kernel devs, they will have more developers. It's the idea that a manufacturer must force themselves to do all the work that makes no sense to me.

> Now we'll never get freesync, HDR10 support, AMDs ANSEL competitor, or any of the other functionality on Linux.

You mentioned a few of the "technologies" that AMD seems insistent on a proprietary implementation for. That means you are relying on AMD alone to implement them, so I am entirely unable to help you. That is the situation we started with for the entire driver, and AMDGPU marks a significant improvement.

You may believe that Linux devs compromising to allow AMD to create a complicated layer in their mainline driver would help them, but I don't believe that to be the case, and neither do they.

The true reason that AMD wants a DAL in their driver is that they aren't willing to entirely discard their old habits, and instead insist on a driver that is, at least partially, closed source. As long as they do that, they require themselves to do wildly unnecessary work, and create entirely worthless incompatibilities, purely out of stubbornness. Stubbornness that will continue to be reciprocated by the Linux dev team.

I will continue to do what I can to support AMD, as long as they make strides toward Free drivers, but I know there are always politics involved, and that AMD won't change overnight.
Boston is too: https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2017/09/06/what-a-fut...
Hi frisco. Do you offer relocation assistance? What about visa sponsorships?
Agree :-)

Proposals on names are always welcomed.
In summary:

> Businesses are upgrading their tech to stay in business which means higher job requirements.

> Workers who don't make "the cut" with necessary analytical skills or higher education are suddenly finding themselves without comparable job options.

Someone posted a PDF on here ranking jobs by how soon they're likely to be automated. IIRC, high-skill healthcare, fine arts, and tech jobs ranked the best. So to all the marketing savvy psychologist-artist-technologists out there, don't worry. You're going to be just fine.
You're right that we require a policy attack on Climate Change, but nonetheless, it feels a bit odd to keep doing the thing that'll kill you.
Potent Nocebo: The more expensive a harmless cream, the more pain it inflicts
Paperclip optimizer
If your part-way through The Buried Giant, it has a solid ending (IMHO) - like Never Let Me Go, the characters realize that they have made some foundational assumptions that aren't quite right, but unlike that novel they do have the opportunity to change those assumptions - for better or worse
> In Rio de Janeiro, there are lanes that change directions at certain times of day (e.g. after 5pm), and the only thing that indicates this is a static signboard.

We have this here in Phoenix, Arizona; our north-south running "7th Street" has this kind of changeover for morning and evening rush-hour traffic to move people in/out of the downtown area quickly during weekdays (Monday-Friday). All other times it is meant to be treated as a median (suicide lane) for making lefts.

I haven't heard of many accidents on it in the 20+ years I've lived here; there have been a few, though. Usually the problems arise near the changeover times; some people's clocks are slow or fast, or they are paying attention, etc. So head-on collisions can occur, but they seem to be fairly rare. There's also the possibility of those not paying attention and rear-ending someone using the lane to make a left turn (I believe this is still legal, in order to access businesses along the route).

Personally, I try to avoid that lane - it just seems like the perfect setup for a one-way trip to the morgue.
I agree, but you have to look at RDBMS from distributed systems perspective.
Can you elaborate on this? What do you mean by native code, other than it being C? Why would a loopback listening daemon be an excellent way to get a remote exploit?.
Why? The RPi isn't anywhere close to open hardware? Might as well use a devkit straight out of China...
Pet Rocks
Wow, this is awesome! I wish I had these when I was a kid.
From the bug report where URLs where changed to https by text search/replace in the specification text (fixed in 2nd ed) [1]:

> There's no real-world impact because nobody uses this standard anymore, for reasons that are becoming increasingly obvious. Apparently nobody even bothered to review a 5.0 -> 5.1 diff before I did so in December, and there's no evidence that anyone has done so since then. I've always found that working with an upstream on a minor bug is a good way to get a feel for how the project works, and on that basis, I don't plan on using HTML 5.2 in my library. The next update will be a switch from 5.1 to the WHATWG spec. The reason is that you're not attempting to achieve a higher quality in the recommendations than in the drafts, so there's no point in using the recommendations.

Ouch

[1]: https://github.com/w3c/html/issues/754
This is hillarious! And by real researchers makes it even more.
My point is emojis help us visualize things - try to give us an actual image instead of a word. But I imagine lots of people don't in particular want other people to visualize them breastfeeding.
A phony ad-blocking Chrome extension infiltrated Google's official Web Store
That was awkward.
wearing some clothes instead of another never made you change your gender, did it ? You could say " i'm a man that likes to wear dresses" without denying being of a "male" gender...
You probably haven't seen the artificial womb. Or the onset of machines that recognize patterns and make heuristic decisions. Or the demise of government for the people. Or the rockets that come back from space and land themselves. Or the advent of portable, personalized spying devices carried in the _billions_ by the _willing_.

Sometimes I wonder if this age is _too_ interesting.
It's clear that many people do find marijuana helpful for certain conditions, for example terminal cancer, where the appetite stimulating effect can be useful in helping forestall cachexia. So there are apparently cases where it is preferential to current drugs. But also it potentially threatens profits for drugs that are not currently developed.

The alternative is to believe that big pharma is not threatened by a medication that is extremely cheap/easy to cultivate, relatively safe, and has proven as well ad potential widespread application. I think you are being a little obtuse in asking for examples! Just Google it - there are plenty.
Success in this case means having a choice to buy such device and run a free OS on it.
This would be a lot better if it was priced closer to cost. $70 is excessive for an a few RGB LEDs, microcontroller and a buzz motor. These things can't cost more than $10 to manufacture even at low scale. You have to buy at least 2 for it to be interesting they should sell them for $20-$40 each. Maybe the pricing will come down as they get orders.

Very cool concept though.

I hope they have some patents on it or they will be seriously undercut.
If the goals are relatively modest (e.g. a low bar of selling ~10K handsets), and the project is well scoped (e.g. don't try to be a me-too Android & iOS alternative, but focus purely on secure communication & web browsing), and if it builds on the better bits of FOSS that came from previous projects (Maemo, Meego, Sailfish, FFOS, Ubuntu Touch, etc)... I think this one stands a chance. (disclaimer: I'm working on the Matrix side of it).
It's worth stressing your point on perceived limitations of financial upside. I work for what is effectively a fintech business within a large financial firm and this is a constant hindrance to innovation because investment tends toward short term gains. I think it really comes down to how low the bar is set for software used by financial institutions with respect to originality and pushing boundaries. There's simply not much pressure to do extraordinary things because clients are accustomed to such laborious, outdated systems and processes. I hear a lot of fluffy talk about leveraging modern technologies and being pioneers but when it comes to building out teams and buying into exciting projects, leadership can't seem to find their wallets unless a client has specifically asked for something.

You mentioned that your colleagues are working on things that break this mold - I won't try to speak for their companies, but in my experience those sorts of experimental projects (e.g. distributed ledger tech) tend to be wildly underfunded and consequently don't deliver much beyond an overblown, hype-building press release.