skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Typography can be understood mathematically to the extent that communication can be understood mathematically. You're never going to account for style, trends, or connotation.

Same with baseball, by the way. Advanced analytics can complement and enhance your understanding of baseball. But there are people involved. It will never be as straightforward as throw a curve because the count is 3 and 1 in this situation.

Human interaction is always going to be art (and fashion) as much as science.
Exercise does nothing to lighten my mood. I hate exercise in virtually all forms. Never experienced the "runner's high" or any kind of apparent dopamine production (not saying it didn't happen, just that I don't ever feel better with exercise).
Paywall workaround: http://archive.is/ghsOu
AI Can Now Snuff Out Alzheimer's a Decade Before Symptoms Appear
> it would me like me calling you an asshole without knowing you.

That's not a fair comparison. I skimmed through the manifesto and followed the Damore case close enough to reach that strong opinion (I didn't just wrap myself in Guardianista commentary). After that, and watching his reactions, I just don't have the time nor care to study his manifesto line by line. Would you, if you find a person that you just cannot respect, and have many more to do and think about?
The article states a Bloom filter is "guaranteed to report correctly if it contains the item", however a Bloom filter cannot do this. The bits set by the various hash functions could very well be set due to some other key. What the Bloom filter _can_ say, is that if none of the bits are set, then clearly the key was never inserted.
Over testing, over diagnosis, and over treatment are significant causes of harm in any health system.
A electrically actuated clutch pulley would solve that. But, many newer cars already have, and need, a mechanical clutch pulley that disengages the alternator on deceleration.
Undercover at the Bullshit Factory (Dan Lyons)
There's no data in this article to support the basic headline.
That it is a rebranding of an old idea shows you exactly what it is - an attempt to sell a business model.

If established companies were just a tiny bit better with the way they do presales, this might be okay. But I've bought too many products in the last five years that were literally broken (videogames are the prime example) after forking over $60. Some of those products have remained broken for months. That's unethical. What shocks me most is this has happened with flagship franchises, which tells me those companies simply don't give a damn. Why should they, when the pay now, deliver later business model works?

Companies need to prove that their product is valuable, you can't do that when you flip the relationship, the power dynamic is completely out of whack - we're the billion dollar company, but we want you, the consumer, to give us money now for a product which we promise will be good later.

As consumers, we should expect more.
Sleeping on the Job – On Wearables in the Workplace to Improve Productivity
What if they only accept bitcoin? That's the case for most businesses accepting cryptocurrencies.

Both of you are suspiciously avoiding a direct and simple question. How does LN work on Bitcoin in this case?
> Anyone else would have been ejected by the board

The board's on it! They'll replace Musk the second they find anyone else capable of creating both a profitable orbital launch company and a profitable electric supercar company, simultaneously.

Of course Musk is a controlling stakeholder on those boards. And while he's really going to get to fire himself any day now, it does appear as if it may take a day or two more than anticipated. But once these last kinks are taken care off, it'll be a revolutionary rethinking of what it means to be fired. Order now!
You know what they say about metrics and targets.

The OEMs make you sit deep in every car because that's how you get a 5-star rating. Then a bunch of people back over pedestrians and kids because in the real world more people will be put in a situation like that than will be in a high speed side impact.

Now the .gov mandates back up cameras...
Deepsig: Applying machine learning to signal processing and radio
oops a senior moment there AL not AU
It may also be that smart rich people have gotten over the cult of homeownership: https://www.ft.com/content/00bf5968-f518-11e2-b4f8-00144feab... or http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2013/07/29/political_eco.... Or search for the term "The cult of homeownership" for more.

There are well-known possible positives to owning but the negatives are vast too, especially compared to investing in an ultra-low-fee index fund in lieu of a house.

Owning a house also made more sense in an era in which a single worker expected to work for a single company at a single site for decades. In an era when two workers may work for a myriad of companies for ranges of six months to ten years, it makes a lot less sense.
It would be a GREAT problem if all manufacturers caught up with Tesla. If electric cars became the norm, that is a good thing. Musk could just move on to concentrate on space exploration and rooftop solar and put automobiles behind him as an industry that was successfully driven to a positive change.
If anyone from the Backblaze team reads this: I love your service BUT please provide proper invoices.

The ones provided in the „My Account“ page are an absolute nightmare.

Look at services like Stripe or Digitalocean and make them downloadable as PDF. Best case: send them out via email or auto-upload to specific Dropbox folder.
Can we not post paywalled garbage? Why give backlinks to something we can't see?
This is a great insight but when I read things like this it reminds me the Smalltalk advocates need to do a better job adressing the concerns of the broader development community. It seems like they spend too much time addressing things that aren't concerns and not enough time on things that are.
Solid rockets that detach. So, at least in theory, could have ejected the rockets. Or detached the shuttle from the whole tank and land. If you can detect the rocket's about to blow, of course.
Are you an insider of this specific case or just another person who knows how Google works internally?
Thank you.

I don't understand why people put up wsj links on HN. If you're a wsj subscriber, you've probably read it already. If you're not, you can't, unless someone puts up an alternative link.

At the least, someone who puts up a wsj link ought to include an alternative link.
i don't control the client (html or javascript) - i'm reimplementing the server side api

so i need to generate the avatar on the server side as a jpeg
Remember that chevvy sell the bolt at a loss. And consequently they don't bother actually trying to sell many of them. I don't think anyone is capable of making batteries as cheaply as Tesla. At least not for the next few years.
Some tough love here.

One of the most reliable ways to get rejected by people is to lead with "I've been hurt". In particular, I don't find it credible that a person who likens W-2 employment to slavery is likely to be "level headed" or "non-political", particularly following with a list of complains about common problems in IT work which are certainly not original and display no special insight or even unusual level of suffering.

For all I know you are already "devastated in an irrecoverable manner".

I have a few years up on you and I have my own sob stories about what can go wrong in a career of programming and my answer was to take more risks and go waaaaaaay out on a limb because one bit of insight I gained from my experience is that there is nothing more dangerous than playing it safe.

Maybe you'll get more empathy from somebody else.
Rich Hickey's response to “On whose authority?”
Curiosity gets people to open mail. Postcards work too. Large ones like Chewy (works like "dialing for new customers" champion).

Not too many UPS flats go through the US mail, but they look important and curious.

My experience with direct mailers from several ends makes me never to really trust numbers.
rr works well with Rust code.
realy so why are non residents buying housing as an investment in London Sf NY and Vancouver?

And if your rich diversifying from just a me to index fund makes a lot of sense hint if the Rothschild's and other mega rich families run actively managed funds its probably a good idea for you to - I have done very nicely out of RCP on the LSE
Thank you for the pointers. I see, "perfect" geometry is not necessarily good typography, and that these "imperfections" have reasoning behind them, for legibility, better balance, to give more natural/correct feel.

I can understand the "near-perfect" circle, but wouldn't you agree that the (mis)alignment of the green and red arcs' edges feels wrong? Not about typography/legibility, but about the balance of lines. Interestingly, in the Futura font, which is quite similar to Google's Product Sans, the top line of the G extends a little further, so that its edge would have lined up "perfectly" as I would have preferred. For comparison: https://qph.ec.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-4c522c183600dbc2ede9aa...
I think even if you happen to know that the address is always aligned, but the compiler can't tell that it's guaranteed to be always aligned, the compiler can miscompile the code. Even without autovectorization.
Very similar here. To this day I can remember the frustration of trying to type "use handcuffs" in Police Quest, which was one of the few timed actions. (I think you got shot of you took too long) Single digit pecking at the keyboard made this extremely hard.
"closed as interesting"

Wikipedia and stackexchange both aim at being reference works. There are different phases in the journey to that goal, and an unfortunate casualty of maturity is the loss of interestingness.

Strikes me as similar to startups, fun when small, horrible upon enterprise "maturity". Many people like the early stages, yet the latter is the goal...
> Jobs: [...] there’s been virtually zero innovation since IBM got dominant control of that market place 15 years ago. They are going to do the same thing in every other sector of the computer market place if they can get away with it. The IBM PC fundamentally brought no new technology to the industry at all. It was just repackaging and slight extension of Apple II technology, and they want it all. They absolutely want it all.

> This market place is coming down to the two of us, whether we like it or not. I don’t particularly like it, but it’s coming down to Apple and IBM.

> [...]

> Playboy: It’s not all competition [...]: You buy your disk drives from Sony, for instance.

> Jobs: We buy many of our components from [...]. We save a ton of energy not having to make and design floppy-disk drives or microprocessors that we can spend on software.

So, nowadays Apple is the new IBM and "needs" serious competition...
This sounds particularly American, rather than for the entire west.
A subsidized car, a government contract limited run space shuttle and some house tiles and batteries that didn't quite take off.

Objectively, the stock is overhyped, and somebody will retire nicely from shorting it fairly soon.
Every major car manufacture has, or is about to have a car that is competitive with the model 3

[Citation needed], as they say on Wikipedia.

Lots of press releases have been issued, but only Chevy has released the Bolt.

Don't get me wrong: I'm a long-term optimist. But the long term may be distressingly long in getting here.
It's because he doesn't care about what other people says (including analysts and investors). I think he just uses it as a tool to motivate and focus people working for him.

On the other hand - frankly, who cares ? Being late on announced dates, missing revenues targets etc - it doesn't change the big picture in any meaningful way. And the big picture is, that he is revolutionizing several industries and no one is even coming close.
I downvoted you for your rudeness but not for your sentiment. You could have disagreed civilly.
Charley Grant has been writing largely negative stories about Tesla since at least mid 2015 [0] saying that investors won't make the gains they hope for. And yet the stock price has improved since then. So, he might in time be right, but so far he hasn't been. Take with a grain of salt.

[0] https://www.wsj.com/video/tesla-delivery-numbers-dont-tell-f...
Yet none of them have a charging solution that matches Tesla. ChaDeMo is half the speed in real-world scenarios and stations don't work half the time. CCS has a good spec but zero real-world deployments that break 60kW.

Meanwhile every 120kW supercharger station I've seen has been doubling capacity and they've been adding stations at a breakneck pace. Heck you can now make the entire loop on the Olympic Peninsula now.
Introducing Strudel.js
Don’t kid, most people aren’t renting because they prefer it. We shouldn’t glorify unaffordability. My “rich” coworkers would largely love to own but they can’t afford the mammoth down payments, and the sky high rents plus sky high taxes make it difficult to save.

“One of Aesop's best-known fables is “The Fox and the Grapes.” On its surface, or its literal level of meaning, the story tells of a fox who wants a bunch of grapes hanging above his head. The fox tries desperately to reach the grapes but cannot. He finally gives up, saying that the grapes are probably sour anyway.“

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fox_and_the_Grapes
https://medium.com/strudel-js/introducing-strudel-js-476a2d6...
Cause they can't find other save investments and have cash burning in their pocket.
>Radioshack failed by giving up its original niche

Radioshack failed when they fired their engineers that were really good at coming up with all the neat stuff they had at the time. So they had no engineers then they started to be a me-too in an already filled space of consumer electronics and cellphones.

I bet that if they would have found a way to hold on to the vision their original engineers had, they could have been the ones to create the Raspberry Pie at an earlier date. Or drones, or expand their part business and become what Digikey is now. Radio Shack had wildly more resources than any of these other projects when they started, but they scoffed at the kits and parts and left them for the cell phone market which they coveted for an easy dime that didn't require the engineers of old.

I'm surprised that they held on for as long as they did, all the while being completely blind to the "makers" that were still there and growing up around them. Until it was quite literally too late and they just became another "me-too" there also.
I don't understand why people put up wsj links on HN

Because the WSJ does a lot of reporting that can't be found anywhere else.

Furthermore, a lot of people also decry the way advertising has distorted the web and media orgs. There are two major ways to pay for news: ads and subscriptions. People who don't like the former ought to like the latter.

Before someone points this out, let me say that I'd love to see micro-payments work out but we have not seen this work yet even after twenty years of prognostication on the topic.
One thing you could do to optimize further (on CPUs with the BMI2 instruction set) is to use the PEXT instruction to perform the bit extract operation (after a BSWAP of course). The whole operation could be something like (untested):

; Parameters: RDI - pointer to input character
; Return value: RAX - Unicode codepoint, or -1 for error
lea r8, [encoding_table] ; Load pointer to table base using rip-relative addressing

mov edx, [rdi] ; unaligned (over)read of 32-bit utf8 codepoint
mov ebx, edx ; Copy to EBX to construct our table index
and ebx, 0xf8 ; Mask off the (potential) data bits
; Now we want to convert the top 5 bits into an index into a table of three * 32-bit entries
; Currently EBX = index * 8, we need index * 12, so we'll divide by two and then multiply by 3
shr ebx, 1
lea ebx, [ebx + ebx * 2]

bswap edx ; Get the codepoint into big-endian representation

pext ecx, edx, [ebx + 4] ; extract padding bits using mask
pext eax, edx, [ebx] ; extract data bits
cmp ecx, [ebx + 8] ; check padding bits
cmovnz eax, -1
retq

encoding_table:
; 00000xxx - 01111xxx
times 16 dd 0x7F, 0x80, 0x00
; 10000xxx - 10111xxx (invalid)
times 8 dd 0, 0xFFFFFFFF, 0 ; The padding will never match here, forcing an error return
; 11000xxx - 11011xxx (two bytes) - padding value 11010
times 4 dd 0x1F3F, 0xE0C0, 0x1A
; 11100xxx - 11101xxx (three bytes) - padding value 1110 1010
times 2 dd 0x0F3F3F, 0xF0C0C0, 0xEA
; 11110xxx (four bytes) - padding value 111 1010 1010
dd 0x073F3F3F, 0xF8C0C0C0, 0x7AAAA
Relevant article from DARPA: https://www.darpa.mil/news-events/2017-08-11a
How many system calls does “ls” make on a Mac? Answer: 134
> Anyone else would have been ejected by the board by now and shareholders would be gnashing their teeth for some accountability

Perhaps it's for the best that Elon seems an indispensable part of Tesla's success. Ejecting CEOs and shuffling the boardroom because value will be realized - shock, horror - a few weeks later is akin to corporate dowsing: questionable actions with dubious results.

Shares can be sold. The idea that holding stocks of a company make one some kind of philosopher-king who need not deign themselves with concepts of patience and time horizons needs to go away.

Investment in shares is risk in hope of return, not a whip.
Higher body mass means a larger amount of tissues which can develop cancer.
> atlassian confluence

l o l

Replying separately because the other response is good and deserves upvotes, please vent your confluence antipathy on this comment’s karma instead.
Video games should be in Olympics, says Warcraft maker (2014)
Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast: The Mindset and Practice of Entrepreneurs
a bit off topic, but I think Bed Bath and Beyond should make their slogan "Don't bother coming in here if you forgot to carry around that trash we sent you"

I wish the post office would allow me to block anything that said "or current resident"
Why are not stocks /funds on the LSE NYSE the same unless the cash is from the black market and they cant pass money laundering regs?
The cottage industry of Corvair vanity plates is one of my favorite corners of the collectible car hobby.

"N8R H8R", "NESPEED", etc.
To your anecdote, I raise mine. At this stage in my life, I don't want to own a home for most of the reasons in the article they've listed.
Jesus' full fish basket has a capacity of 0.1 cubic meters. Each fish in the basket has a volume of 0.0008 cubic meters and a packing density of 1.25. Jesus then distributes 33 fish. How many fish remain in Jesus' basket ?

Since the title of the post doesn't properly describe the article, this comment feels appropriate albeit insensitive.
My wife and I are in this percentage. Both educated, making ok money but with a new family and undergrad loans still looming it feels like homeownership is still years away. I will probably be 35 by the time I can buy my first "starter home".

We are moving all around the country to find better and more affordable places to live. In fact now that my wife has her master's we're chasing clinics that provide loan repayment just so we can get our debt out from under us.

Another reason we keep renting - I've worked other industries that do poorly during a recession and tech feels no different. I'm highly predisposed to not being stuck with a huge mortgage when things get tough which means in a lot of cities I'd never feel comfortable buying a home (insinuating that we couldn't survive on one income).
Here’s the upshot: rich households—those earning more than 120 percent of the metro median income—saw their renter share rise by 1.2 percent between 2012 and 2015. Since 2006, that growth was a striking 6.2 percent. The renter share among households making less than 50 percent of the median income, on the other hand, remained roughly the same since 2012. Since 2006, it grew by a modest 2.9 percent. More educated subsets of metro residents also gained renters in this period.

This does not make much sense how the author derives the 6.2% figure and then says its 1.2%, nor does a 1.2% gain over a 3-year period seem like much.
Every time I have worked for a company that had a tight relationship with Intel I've gotten the opportunity to meet with them and ask for chips features. I always ask for encoding / decoding Unicode. So far I've been ignored for 15 years or so.
Cell division is not perfect, each time there is a chance of error. This is why anything that results in a net increase in cell division will be linked to cancer.

Obesity means you have more cells than other people... to have more cells there must have been more cell divisions. The role of mitogenesis in cancer has been realized for many, many years[1], so I'm not sure why there is still any controversy about it.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC54830/
AFAIK intelligence (i.e., IQ) is correlated with lifetime financial success - or at least is indicated as such in psychological literature, and to me seems sensible intuitively. So, it is believable that the children of the affluent (and probably intelligent) tend also to be intelligent, in addition to receiving better education capitalizing on this. Both (or perhaps really two sides of the same coin) may play a role.
Money laundering, safe durable stores of value protected from their governments' confiscation efforts, pure speculation, and being on the wrong end holding the bag all spring to mind.
React Native seems like it will keep BSD+Patents license
Hmm. The jpeg requirement seems odd. Even if it has "jpg" in the url, you can serve up a standalone SVG (with a jpg extension in the url) as long as you send the right MIME type. The example SVG above shows it's probably going to be lighter weight than pulling in a java image library.
thanks for acknowledging, i know that can be hard to do. i think the difference here is that she didn't announce it in her workplace, but rather brought it up for public debate in an open forum.
Firefox Master Password Duplicate Prompt Bug Unfixed for 15 Years
I think most of your advice is solid, but I take issue with one point:

> - If your font colour is more thant #333 on white, you're being cruel, especially to those who suffer astigmatism.

A designer should think hard before reducing contrast. You may be improving the experience for one group at the expense of others:

- A low contrast page is difficult to read on a cell phone in daylight.

- A low contrast page is difficult to read at night on a dimmed display.

I don't meant to discount folks for whom high contrast is a problem, but don't they have a simple recourse? Reduce the brightness or contrast of the display. Most monitors and laptops have controls that allow this.
The list archives are difficult to link to.

Look for posts around June 2015, e.g., with Subject:s like "Summary of the poll: Elliptic Curves - signature scheme: friendliness to low memory implementations" or subjects containing "IUF" (Init, Update, Final) here:

https://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/cfrg/current/mail5.htm...

(The archives' main page is https://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/cfrg/current/maillist....)
I think it's quite unfair to call what they're doing "BS". If you look at Musk's history at both SpaceX and Tesla, the pattern is pretty obvious: the products are always late, but rarely disappoint.

And considering that much of what they do is best categorised as research, I can't really see why one would get angry at dates slipping. Maybe if you're one of their commercial space launch customers–but even then you should've extrapolated from the past and doubled their estimates.

Maybe they could follow Apple's PR lead more closely and only announce products when they're done. But I guess Musk is just too excited not to talk about whatever idea he has on any given day, and they may also rely on pre-orders for financing. They do seem to make it up by creating products that are far more ambitious than Apple, though.