skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indeed, all those obvious misconceptions make the title addition "(for True Nerds)" sound quite strange.

Sitting in front of your computer all day doesn't make you a nerd.

Diving into a topic and not stopping until you develop a shockingly deep unterstanding, that does make you a nerd. (Bonus points for surpassing the generally-accepted experts on that field.)
Here's the Space Data patent:

https://www.google.com/patents/US7801522?dq=7,801,522&hl=en&...

It sure is broad and not very specific. One of the claims seems to boil down to turning the radio off sometimes.
>when I see let, I can make assumptions about it not being mutated, which is a huge win in a large codebase.

What we know is that this won't work:

let p = Person("one")
p = Person("two")

But we don't know whether this will work:

p.name = "three"

It depends on whether Person is a struct or a class, but that information is not available locally. let/var is fine, but in terms of information content it is strictly worse than what const can do in C.
Honestly, and this is coming from a Bitcoin bear, it will probably generate outsized returns in comparison to the S&P500 over the next 2 to 4 years. If it truly is a bubble then it will have a long way to run. The market cap at the moment is tiny, but probably too high to disregard now, and if institutional money starts buying in, it can probably easily go 10-20-30x again.

Don't forget it's still relatively hard for average folk to purchase crypto. But once you have acceptable ETFs and funds that you can purchase at a click of a button through your brokerage account -- a lot of people (and pension funds!) will probably allocate 1-2% of their portfolio to crypto. That is 1-2% of $300tn or so, or 30 to 60 times the amount of money in the space today (in terms of market cap).

If you think this bubble will run for a while, then I also think it's not unreasonable to assume you can multiple your initial investment by 10x by investing in either Bitcoin or Ethereum. But that's my opinion (and this is obviously not investment advice).

Whether it'll be around in 40+ years, I don't dare make that bet. But no one is saying you can't move money around to the better investment opportunity at a specific time.
Wait, I always thought time existing only in human conception was the accepted scientific explanation for time.
One of the greatest strengths of the Web platform is "view source," the ability to start diving into the code any time you find yourself wondering "how did they achieve that?" So a major criticism of WASM is the erosion of that tradition.

However, I suspect that, by volume, most of the WASM code out there is going to be built from open source components, with a little customization sprinkled on top. It takes a little more detective work to find these sources and read them, but I think it's just as worthwhile as in the plain HTML days. Perhaps we could converge on tools and practices that would make it easier to discover the sources from which WASM artifacts were built.
Sounds un-googley.
You could do worse than Feynman's QED. The main weakness from your probable POV is that it doesn't get into quantum computing or other modern developments. But it's short and very good.
I just dont look at the walkthrough. Unless I already beat it, and I'm going for maximum points
"People talked about putting a telegraph on every desk in America to improve productivity. But it wouldn’t have worked. It required that people learn this whole sequence of strange incantations, Morse code, dots and dashes, to use the telegraph. It took about 40 hours to learn. The majority of people would never learn how to use it." He is probably right. And yet, how tragic. Forty hours is not that long. Imagine that the telephone hadn't been invented. Would we still today be living in a society where people went to the telegraph office to send telegraphs but basically no one could telegraph themselves?
Not really. The S&P 500 total return is up 25% from a year ago when everyone was just as confident that markets were too high and due for a crash.
Behind Tesla’s Production Delays: Parts of Model 3 Were Being Made by Hand
Guess they would have passed on Facebook then.
There are 100s of millions of sites, who’s going to crawl all of them and send out alerts? How would you know what backend tech is being used?

Major risks and CVEs are already published in the appropriate news channels, which is far more efficient and effective.
Why Deutsche Bank is suddenly big on open source
> No it isn't! It's better to buy and hold and ride it out

No. Decades of research has shown that it's better to sell early and get back in late. It has shown that selling late and buying back in early is worse than riding out. It has shown that selling and never buying back in is worse than riding out.

> Decades of research by now has shown that buy-and-hold beats timing the market every time.

No. It has shown that people are bad at timing the market. Nobody can buy at the lows and sell at the highs. That's why you sell early and buy back in late.

For most people, they should just buy dated mutual funds and not even think about the markets.

The simplest thing to do is to start liquidating your stock positions when the fed starts ramping up interest rates ( maybe a few quarters of consistent interest rate hikes ) and then start buying back in slowly when the FED starts lowering interest rates.

That will give you far better returns than buying and holding.
It means there are parts of the project you really don't have an embracive grip over, and that does not make you a great developer. It makes you a weaker one.
That's very cool. I hope if it becomes semi-pernanent that they're able to keep the balloons from hitting the Arecibo Radio Observatory with radio frequency interference.
lol this username.
> I work for a company that writes iOS apps, large and small.

But aren't most iOS apps just thin clients? and if they are thickish isn't most of the code related to UI?

If the above is true, Swift and its currently un-robust tooling should be the solution for most/all projects.
Looks like robohash has the cat one: https://robohash.org/lala.png?set=set4
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Wow - those are simply amazing.
Yeah, I can see that as well. In short, well executed I like their payoff matrix across a number of eventualities.

Sort of like an AWS for logistics.
Yet, if you visit that URL, you are greeted with :

Current version:	2.49 (2010-07-07)

Seems like the patch level on openSUSE is provided by the package maintainer, not CLISP. It looks like Debian Wheezy is at "2.49-8.1", Ubuntu Xenial is at "2.49-9ubuntu1", FreeBSD Ports is at "2.49_6", but also marked deprecated/expired as of 2014.

I'd venture that the maintainer is applying patches to the upstream source to keep it running on the OSes when they update ABIs, etc.
All the aluminium from discarded aircraft (and there were a lot more than Luftwaffe could fuel or staff) had to go somewhere... E.g. many bicycles built in the 1950ies had aluminium rims, which would a few years later disappear from the market except for the most high end racing bikes, not to make a mainstream comeback for decades. For a while, even kitchen utensils were hard to get in anything but aluminium. The recycling economy that was developed in wartime scarcity was never completely abandoned in later years.
Telkom (and also Eskom) are beyond kak. We desperately need telecoms/electricity to be privatised.
The new ones crumple like a coke can if you touch them against anything. I'm not a fan, as expensive as bodywork is these days, and with how much more irritating aluminum is to work with for your average shade-tree mechanic.
BT is also "an ISP among many" now.
"On the other hand airplanes are designed tested in small scale for proof of concept and specs are finalised before any production work begins."

Let me introduce you to the F-35 and let's see how you react to that.
Black Hat Europe 2017 Announces First Briefings
It's clear you are arguing for the sake of arguing and this community is worse for it.
@namarie got it right. Per Part 3 in the series:

In the second episode, we saw a slew of new telescopic discoveries during 1610-1611; viz., the mountains on the moon, the Medicean stars, and (more decisively) the phases of Venus. Now the first two do not demonstrate geomobility, not do they undermine geostationarity. The first indicates that the moon is not incorruptible. But this is agreed to by theology, and it undermines only Aristotelian physics. The second indicates that some heavenly bodies -- Cosmo, Franco, Carlo, and Lonzo -- circle Jupiter and not the Earth. This bothers Aristotelian physicists, but not Tychonic astronomers. Only the phases of Venus KOs Old Man Ptolemy.

But eliminating Ptolemy does not prove Copernicus any more than eliminating Darwin would prove ID. There may be [and were!] other alternatives. When Ptolemy was ptossed, astronomers flocked... to the Tychonic and Ursine systems -- because none of the telescopic observations have so far established the motions of the Earth.

* http://tofspot.blogspot.com/2013/09/the-great-ptolemaic-smac...

In Part 2 Flynn outlines the seven major models in play:

* Heraclidean. Geo-heliocentric. Mercury and Venus circle the Sun; everything else circles the Earth.

* Ptolemaic. Geocentric, stationary Earth.

* Copernican. Heliocentric, pure circles with lots of epicycles.

* Gilbertian. Geocentric, rotating Earth. (proposed by William Gilbert in De magnete)

* Tychonic. Geo-heliocentric. Sun and Moon circle the Earth; everything else circles the Sun.

* Ursine. Tychonic, with rotating Earth.

* Keplerian. Heliocentric, with elliptical orbits.

* http://tofspot.blogspot.com/2013/08/the-great-ptolemaic-smac...
i'm stuck generating avatars server-side in java - anyone know of a good package ?
I agree stocks are rich/richish by most metrics, but still cheaper than bonds/real estate. And the latter have very strong negative correlation to the level of interest rates.

Plus, private equity is sitting on close to $1T of dry powder. That's a pretty strong back stop to stock prices. In short, to avoid the crash you need to figure out what causes mass PE withdrawal, and get in front of that.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-01/why-priva...
Or does your head only exist in time?
Quality. Speed. Price. Pick any two.
Scinex SW20 Review: Full-Featured GSM Smartwatch Within Budget
... among readers of Fortune magazine.
That's my point. I don't think cats are very good at explaining things, but they still manage to teach their young to hunt. I see that as coming from a strong ability to imitate, rather than a strong ability to explain.
WebEx seems like a worse and worse idea (or perhaps it's just the execution) every single time I read anything about it.
That's an unfair assumption to make. Calling me hand-wavey doesn't add anything to the community either.
It did cut about 700lbs off the vehicle, which (in part) took them from 17/23 mpg in 2014 to 19/26 mpg today.

I can see the dilemma they have trying to keep up with CAFE standards: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_Average_Fuel_Economy...
I dont get it either :) Yes, that’s basically all it does.

I don’t think theres anything to it
The Seven Deadly Sins of AI Predictions
Build your own fingerprint reader
Lilly the Witch: Lilly and the Polar Bears: E7: Animated Series for Girls
This Video of How Medieval People Walked Is Oddly Compelling
Not always blow themselves up. Just continually reinvest. In their people, their products. The problem with our economic system is how short sighted corporations have become.
I took it to mean that Java/Python/Ruby/C# were "old tools" with flaws (bugs), but LISP is a tool for the future.
However interest is subjective, and it’s obviously interesting to some, considering the traction it’s gotten.
Retard.
Brain Has a Hunger Off Switch, and It May Be Possible to Switch It Off Faster
If you think that search and replace is an appropriate way to refactor, when there are better options, then I'm not sure I'd be comfortable working with you...
Airline plans to use electric airplanes in 10 years–is that possible?
The “doctor” who joined the cult of alternative medicine and then broke out
It's been know for years that they run transparent proxies.

And while this isn't great this is a bit overplayed. They're more the kind of company that does something incompetently than one that does stuff maliciously.
It's ironic that this might end up being a privacy argument for Chrome over Firefox. At least you can decide not to log in.
Honestly that's one of the things I loved about it. Text games will work with any language without any libraries (for the most part). If I have to use Unity or Unreal, I feel like I'm really just learning how to use a framework and not useful long term programming skills. I think grand theft wumpus uses lisp to write out dot files for graphviz to consume. They skirt around using a library for that which is what I do even in languages with graphviz support.
You don't find it a bit odd that a project built using distribution packages, with distribution package managers, with (eventually) a choice between which of several distributions to use, is called "Distroless"?

It's also pretty weird if you do start to "support" Nix, considering Nix already is capable of building the same kind of distroless Docker images on its own, in a much more rigorous way. That is, Nix tracks and builds the entire dependency tree instead of just using existing binaries, and has a uniform system for expressing dependencies on components. This allows, for example, using multiple different languages in the same container, which it doesn't look like Distroless can do?

The way that this project would be genuinely interesting is if you were actually building the system from scratch with Bazel, rather than using existing black-box Debian binary packages. That would be like what Nix and Guix are already capable of, but it would be interesting to get some competition in that space from a different class of tool. Of course I don't know if Bazel is even capable of doing that and producing an image, maybe a large opaque "distroless" base runtime is the finest level of dependency resolution it's capable of, in this area?
It’s easy to throw down the theory and some okay-ish pseudocode while in effect saying, “...and the rest is just a minor implementation detail, which I leave as an exercise to the reader...”

I don’t feel that’s really the case with TAOCP. It’s machine language for a fictional machine, but there exist emulators for the machine. The code is runnable.
The criticism of Knuth's use of MIX seems a bit off because:

+ Assembly language level instruction execution is a good way of talking about the running time of algorithms at a finer level of detail than Big O notation. Finer grain than Big O is helpful when analyzing and optimizing programs.

+ MIX is a good abstraction of the Von Neumann architecture and that's where the analysis of actual programs occurs.

+ MIX programs are still accessible to a general auidence 50 years after they were written. No actual programming language available in 1967 is still similarly accessible to such a degree.

+ MMIX is the successor of MIX...but in so far as learning MIX is an issue, it's more complex child probably is not an improvement.

The art of MIX is that it keeps the reader's focus on the fact that computer programs ultimately load registers, read memory, execute mathematical primatives, and branch no matter what object-oriented, functional, or type safe abstractions a high level language might offer.
That's a bad article not really worth reading. The author either did not understand what he is talking about or did a quite bad job communicating the ideas. There are huge gaps in the article and you won't be any wiser after reading it.
The argument is deeply flawed.

1) A term doesn't become imaginary just because it turned out to be physically more elaborate than its initial meaning.

The concept of time never vasnished. It just changed a bit. It is still one of the axes of spacetime.

2) The logic itself is flawed. Saying "Time might only exist in your head ... because of spacetime" is like saying:

* "Magnetism might only exist in your head ... because of electromagnetism"

* "Electricity might only exist in your head ... because of electromagnetism"

* "Atoms [meaning: individable parts] might only exist in your head ... because of electrons/protons/neutrons"

3) Even from a purely philosophical view, pointing out time here is meaningless. Every word describes a concept, a model, so anything including spacetime might exist just in our heads. Pointing that out specifically for time makes no sense.
Swift is the best way to develop IOS apps, that’s a pretty good reason.
Has XCode ever been good? I've tried using it from time to time, over the past ten years, and it's always just felt like banging rocks together compared to the Microsoft or Jetbrains tooling.
This is the standard way to do user interfaces in Picolisp. If you've never toyed with Picolisp, check it out. It is a very opinionated lisp.

https://picolisp.com/wiki/?home
FYI vim mode in emacs does what you describe.
Perhaps you missed the part in the video where the flimsy fuel hose is flapping around right next to the movable rear axle? I know the corvair is bad, but this car sounds way worse.
This is a good exercise too to point out all of the tiny little elements of car UX which you just expect to be right. Things like, placement of the sideview mirror in such a way as you can see the mirror, and not placing it behind a pillar that blocks the view.

When UX is right, sometimes it blends into the background and disappears, just lets you use the object. You don't really know what's right about car UX until you see it done badly, then all of those things you took for granted really pop out.
It's always been a puzzle to me about what makes time different from other dimensions. In the article, it mentions that Lanza has "a theory that space and time are constructs of biological sensory limitations." This implies that by shifting the dimension that the biological systems run along, you can either change the dimension considered "time," or even reverse the direction. I'm not sure this is possible, though, because of entropy. Movement along any directional dimension doesn't determine the position or reversibility of chemical or physical processes, but movement along time does.
This is very bad advice.

The TOR browser is not just a Firefox without the data traps, it's tunneling your connection through the onion network. This is something you have to be aware of while browsing. It has many implications!
It is arbitrarily divisible. Fitting inside 64 bits is convenient, but hardly an insurmountable engineering challenge. There's libraries that handle this sort of thing with ease.
It can be undone though, right? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_eraser_experiment

Or do you mean that the point where it can no longer be undone in principle can be considered as a cutoff for "collapse"?
Ah, it's an ugly, verbose syntax for pattern matching. Got it :-)
1. Sounds pretty sane. 2. is tragic.
Can we get a comparison of Algorithms undergrad courses? :)
I like the optical effect where 1/4 of the article is obscured by two banners.
A Dispatch from Deep State Command
You can not possibly claim that Google and "cliqz" are equals regarding trust and data security. In addition to that is Chrome only syncing your history if you are logged in.
I've wanted vertical tabs forever but existing addons didn't work or held my cpu at 100% the whole time. A little while ago they trialled it with Firefox Test Pilot and I've been enjoying it ever since. Now they broke their own addon in Firefox 56, which is not even suppossed to have the shit webextensions yet. I was going to stay at 56 for a while until there were replacements for everything, but it seems 55 was the last usable version.

I don't know what parent means specifically, but 56 already started breaking stuff irrevocably for me.
This is more likely.
A quick look at the source of the extension shows they use the following addresses for gathering data and publishing 'offers':

https://abtests.cliqz.com
https://anolysis-gid.cliqz.com
https://anolysis-telemetry.cliqz.com
https://antiphishing.cliqz.com
https://anti-tracking.cliqz.com
https://api.cliqz.com
https://cdn.cliqz.com
https://cliqz.com
https://hpn-collector.cliqz.com
https://hpn-sign.cliqz.com
https://offers-api.cliqz.com
https://safe-browsing.cliqz.com
https://safe-browsing-quorum.cliqz.com
https://stats.cliqz.com

These can be added to the blocklist on the router or just watched for fun and profit, your choice.

As an aside, both the domain name 'cliqz.com' as well as the use of terms like 'offers' leave a bad taste. If this is really meant to be a legitimate operation they could have done better than to copy the language of the bottom feeders of the 'net, now they just come across like a revamp of 'Bonzi Buddy' and its ilk, watching users' browsing habits to provide 'shopping opportunities' and such drivel.
I thought the point was very clear - if gravity is too slow (not sure what this means) to force decohered particles to move in a single time direction, then the notion that a decohered particle is moving forward in time must come from our personal predispositions.

I'm just a layperson reading this article - happy to be corrected.
Trump’s administration deleted data on Puerto Rico’s crisis from FEMA’s website
Only one of these was ever built. That makes it less interesting to me. I'm sure there were other one off builds that have been awful.
This title should be changed to "My problem with Microsoft customer service" or something less one-sided.

Anyway, Microsoft customer service is excellent in my experience. I can't think of a tech company with better customer service. Maybe Apple. Amazon has good service for retail customers, not sure about AWS though.
Importing with Absolute Paths in JavaScript/TypeScript Using Webpack
Came here to post about this guy. So awesome he's finally getting the attention he deserves.
3 Ways  Subconscious Mind Learns
I wouldn't expect compensation if someone is sincere in wanting to learn and shows ability.

As Confucius said: If I hold up 3 corners of a square and the student does not hold up the 4th, I do not go over the point again.
This is one of the main reasons that I work from home / remote entirely. The worst office configuration I ever saw was a San Francisco open plan environment in a loft style office where all the engineering desks had their back to a floor to ceiling window shining bright sun on every engineer's screen for roughly 1/2 the day. I don't think that company (Kleiner funded) was ever profitable.

Every single engineer had eye strain as well the normal noise distractions.
According to wikipedia the road from R&D conception to commercial deployment with Singapore Airlines for the A380 spanned almost 20 years, from 1988 to 2007.

How many software projects have that sort of scope?
They were crap in steel, I would be very surprised if they are any better in aluminum. I had one of these while I lived in Canada (longbox, 3 seater cab) and before the warranty ran out the support strut of the gearbox and the associated welds gave out. Ford refused to fix it because the vehicle was not rated 'heavy duty'. The heaviest we ever hauled in it was a load of firewood.

Welding aluminum properly is a lot harder than welding steel and aluminum is also a lot less forgiving than steel when it comes to constructing cars out of it.

I never bought a Ford after that wonderful, and I'm still amazed that they would not stand behind their product, good luck to anybody that buys an F150 made of aluminum.
IMHO sandboxing extensions is overall a good thing. A rouge extension could have access to e.g. your password manager otherwise.