skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a harder time focusing in coffee shops than I do in open offices.

Coffee shop noises are not really "background noises" for me. The noises I hear tend to be the people talking loudly that stick out, the people munching on food, and the people slurping coffee loudly. There are also visual distractions like people coming and going.

I think libraries offer a far better trade off between being somewhere public and being free from many noises.
I remember reading about this back in school in the library; I found it very sophisticated that it was specifically designed with no power source, and thus almost impossible to detect. A very, very clever design.

And also a wonderful illustration of political machinations, in that the olive branch extended to you often has a covert team watching exactly how your fingers grasp it.
You are overlooking the obvious problem. Subsonic planes already existed. Even it it was just as efficient at subsonic speed, I doubt if it was as cost effective as a 737, for example.

The Concorde seated 100 people, in first class. If you can’t fly at supersonic speeds, you aren’t going to spend the extra money.
> concerns of less population-dense areas are ignored

As I said, areas don't vote. People do. Why should ten people living on a hundred acres get more representation than ten people living on one? Painting "one person one vote" as colonialist is flat-out dishonest. It's the alternative that's discriminatory, treating some people as more deserving than others because they own more land.
The sister museum in Speyer (not far away) has a Buran, a Soyuz capsule, and a nicely prepared Boeing 747 among other thing. If you are going to visit, you should try to visit both.
The main thing to keep in mind with Lambda is the number of library dependencies you're pulling in and your development workflows. I believe that you're limited to a certain file size per a lambda job, which includes dependencies. Developer workflows, just means that you'll need to come up with a way to sync lambda jobs with your version control (we currently have a deploy script for our workflow). I do have one ex-colleague who's all in on Lambda. His company just uses lambda to do all their backend processing.
i think if they stumbled, google would be the buyer. or maybe microsoft.

amazon already built their version of netflix, the only thing they would need to acquire is the original content, and consumers seem to be so fickle over content anyways a licensing deal with the real buyer would be better business strategy. (probably).
While I agree that the statement about wanting to make money is somewhat a fallacy, I agree with the authors sentiment that you must never let a job hold you hostage, no matter how dire a situation becomes. Once you start down the road of "I don't want to be here but I need to be" you're only setting yourself up for misery.
For those interested and unfamiliar, “pulldown” here refers to converting frame rates between different video standards by doubling up or blending frames at regularly spaced intervals, which can introduce a visual artifact called judder which is apparent in those clips.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-two_pull_down
even for math operations, "we'll let it go" would seem to be a different sentiment than "good". :)
Right, it's whether or not I can put the conversation into a context. If not, it's just noise. If I can organize it or think about how accurate the information is, you have my un-un-divided attention.
"However, let me promise you this: if you truly want to have money, you will."

Well, that's very nice of him. I'm confused, though: how do I send him my application for the money he's promised me? Is an email enough?
I have seen absolutely filthy "old" MBP keyboards that worked just fine. It's a laptop, I should be able to use it without having to treat it like a delicate snowflake. Whatever happened to building quality hardware?
Have the same problem recently with the W-key, it types twice sometimes, most noticeably, it will close two tabs instead of one. When I smack it, it fixes it for a while, I think. The f-key is also giving me trouble, it's shallower and sounds different, sometimes it will just fall out.
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Why would the solution not be hiding the complexity? TLS "hides" the complexity. It works fine, and it's ubiquitous.

The "solution" to E2E encrypted email has been known for two decades: there should be a system for publicly announcing public keys and privately sharing private keys between trusted devices. It's not rocket science: see Telegram, Signal, Whatsapp, iMessage, etc.

But what those service have that email does not is a commercial incentive to make it all work seamlessly. Email is stuck with a system of half-implemented RFCs and patches for a system designed in the 80s with zero security considerations.

I feel like the only way we're ever going to make progress is if regulators require it. Have the EU mandate that email services with more than 10m customers need to have transparent E2E. Gmail, Outlook, and Yahoo will figure it out about three months after that law is passed.
Just because (judging from the comments) non-iPhone owners may not be aware, this isn't a new feature in the iPhone at all, Siri has had voice-activated prompts since late 2015 [0]. What it looks like is the team finally got the OK to share technical details about how this works with the public, and that's what we're seeing here.

Apple doesn't usually do tech writeups; I imagine a pinhead at the corporate level decided it wasn't worth the risk of leaking any "secret sauce" until now.

0: https://www.cultofmac.com/390181/5-ways-hey-siri-will-change...
Pretty cool how they reduce the power consumption - when it first came out, "Hey Siri" required your device to be plugged in:

> To avoid running the main processor all day just to listen for the trigger phrase, the iPhone’s Always On Processor (AOP) (a small, low-power auxiliary processor, that is, the embedded Motion Coprocessor) has access to the microphone signal (on 6S and later). We use a small proportion of the AOP’s limited processing power to run a detector with a small version of the acoustic model (DNN). When the score exceeds a threshold the motion coprocessor wakes up the main processor, which analyzes the signal using a larger DNN.

> Apple Watch uses a single-pass “Hey Siri” detector with an acoustic model intermediate in size between those used for the first and second passes on other iOS devices. The “Hey Siri” detector runs only when the watch motion coprocessor detects a wrist raise gesture, which turns the screen on. At that point there is a lot for WatchOS to do—power up, prepare the screen, etc.—so the system allocates “Hey Siri” only a small proportion (~5%) of the rather limited compute budget. It is a challenge to start audio capture in time to catch the start of the trigger phrase, so we make allowances for possible truncation in the way that we initialize the detector.

Another interesting nugget:

> There are thousands of sound classes used by the main recognizer, but only about twenty are needed to account for the target phrase (including an initial silence), and one large class class for everything else. The training process attempts to produce DNN outputs approaching 1 for frames that are labelled with the relevant states and phones, based only on the local sound pattern. The training process adjusts the weights using standard back-propagation and stochastic gradient descent. We have used a variety of neural network training software toolkits, including Theano, Tensorflow, and Kaldi.
The problem with Google Play Music, Spotify and similar services is that you must select the music, which can be incredibly distracting in itself. I like music radio stations better in that regard.

Digitally Imported (https://di.fm) is a fantastic voice-free radio network with over 300 channels/genres [1] for every kind of music (electronic, rock, pop, jazz etc). I use it every day, it's hard to not be productive while listening to their Goa-Psy channel [2].

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

[2] https://www.di.fm/goapsy
Just curious, do you mean that SV's a dead end for talented software engineers? or just that it tracts most of them?
The silver bullet: Super rich don't make airliners money. Most flights make 80+% of their revenue from business class. First class is too spacious, it's vastly less profit per area. Economy pack you in like sardines because you really do not matter.

Sorry, but Concord was a bad idea and it isn't coming back. Maybe some kind of private airplane for the Elon Musks of the world who can afford to pay their own plane. But a supersonic cruiser just isn't viable.

Your point about WiFi is the real killer. Why pay an order of magnitude more for faster travel, when what you really need is reliable WiFi so you can work from the plane. Then travel time is just a convenience, it doesn't stop work.
If 20% of the population has the problem, you fix the phone not the population.
If it’s something you use so infrequently why not have it on the screen in a toolbar instead, so you still don’t have to remember which key it is, and you don’t need to move your gaze away from what you were already looking at.

The touchbar has used, but from what I can tell, all those uses are better solved by existing non touchbar techniques already.

Toolbars for infrequently user functions you won’t remember the shortcut for (better because they hold more and don’t require you to change the screen you’re looking at, and you can keep your hands on the touchpad/mouse as before).

Fn keys (or combo keys) for frequently used shortcuts that you would remember as they ass tactile feedback and are much more conducive to touch typing.

The trackpad for actual scrubbing like functions.

Where I can see the touchbar being useful are infrequently used global functions, but I believe these are the ones Apple explicitly prevents developers from building (and unsurprisingly the inbuilt global ones from Apple are the most popular feature of the touchbar, such as volume controls and music playback controls).
Do you also buy small, 1 to 3 person businesses? If you do what kind of deals do you do with the funders, as you would need them to work for you?
They each function as public institutions in their respective spaces and each is backed with substantial real world fibre and data centers.
Why Some Nations Are Warming to Technocracy
Why Washington should finally make Puerto Rico a state
The RFC clearly states:

> This document describes DCTCP as implemented in Microsoft Windows Server 2012 [WINDOWS]. The Linux [LINUX] and FreeBSD [FREEBSD] operating systems have also implemented support for DCTCP in a way that is believed to follow this document. Deployment experiences with DCTCP have been documented in [MORGANSTANLEY].

> Why publish the RFC now, especially since it's not on track to become an Internet standard?

Presumably it's to guide future implementors who wish to attain compatibility with the existing implementations.
You can change the prompt it listens for
A big difference between working in a coffee shop vs a library from what I have noticed is that a coffee shop is filled with people who appear to be somewhat similar to yourself, whereas a library seems to have a lot of homeless people hanging out to stay out from the elements. I would rather work in the coffee shop based on this.

I understand this can vary significantly based on location, but this is what I have noticed in my city.
This is mostly correct.

The declassified portion of the UK USA agreement [1] doesn't actually mention spying on other members' citizens, as the purpose of the agreement was to establish the scope of shared information during the Cold War.

The prohibitions on collection were made during subsequent agreements and aren't declassified. Some countries have additional restrictions, such as prohibiting other members from collecting metadata; all prohibit collection of actual message content.

Of course, a country could defy the agreement and existing treaties, and collect. I haven't seen any evidence of this in the Snowden leaks though.

1. https://www.nsa.gov/news-features/declassified-documents/uku...
>What on Earth could be the point, instead of going home

Home is a very bad place for me to try to focus because I'm constantly reminded of things that need to be fixed, painted, washed, etc. And if there are other humans in the home it's even worse because you know I could be socializing with them, helping them with their homework, fixing their computer problems...

So a coffee shop is an improvement because a) Starbucks people are responsible for fixing the plumbing problems and b) I don't know anyone there.
Working on laptops anywhere —​ other than as a last resort while actually travelling —​ leaves me utterly mystified. Tiny screen and execrable ergonomics.
I think the title of "The Millennial Walt Disney" might be overselling it a bit.
kind of like, 'aol keyword'?
Thanks, that's a great suggestion
Luckily, https://wpostats.com is there to answer this question.
There are several companies working on the idea. There’s been a lot of work done recently on advanced aerodynamic designs that would significantly reduce the sonic boom for a given size of aircraft. On smaller planes this might reduce it to levels that would be considered tolerable over populated areas.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supersonic_business_jet
Something that can't store a PDF library locally just wouldn't cut it for me. I travel too much and internet just isn't guaranteed.
Boom [1] has been on a number of HN comments, using a similar NYC <-> London model at a fixed cost.

1: https://boomsupersonic.com/
I’m not sure how long they get to keep their back catalog. Has anything been licensed indefinitely?

Their business is certainly going to only continue to increase in competitiveness for the foreseeable future. My primary concern, from Netflix’s view, would be Amazon being comfortable buying video content at a loss forever.
Where was that quid-pro-quo spying actually revealed? Greenwald alleged this in his articles, but it was never actually substantiated even with circumstantial evidence.
Congrats to PingCAP on the 1.0 launch.

I've used TiDB for some side projects and I was really impressed. Excited to see how things continue to develop!
Apple and GE announce deep partnership
60FPS movies do this to me - everything tends to look like a stage play.
Begone, foul clickbait headline that thinks it can excuse itself by putting a question mark at the end.
division is also not defined on the set of IEEE binary floating point numbers, you only have (well-defined) rounding.

For that matter, addition and subtraction aren't defined on the range of fixed-bit-width integers.
This was written by Herb Sutter who is the C++ guy at Microsoft, and he doesn't have a Windows phone.

Bill Gates doesn't have a Windows phone.

Windows doesn't even want to make new Windows phones.

Time to stop talking about Windows phones.
As someone who manages digital media for a living and has done so with very large sums of money with measurable revenue attached to that spend, I'd invite you to share what makes your experience so concrete as to enable you to attempt to discredit an entire industry with a wave of your hand.

I'll be the first to say that measuring the incremental impact of advertising is often very challenging for a variety of technical and business reasons. That does not mean it doesn't work.
I figured there was a use case for it. The price for a laptop goes up exponentially when one of its resources reaches an upper limit. But keep in mind that for that price you could build three desktops with the same RAM and run CI/CD on a redundant distributed cluster (which become necessary for long running simulations, unless you want to keep your laptop at the office all weekend). It's also a more realistic simulation due to system resource and interconnect bottlenecks.
>I want a culture that promotes living to work. I want employees to feel so excited by their work that it’s no longer a chore, but enjoyment

Lifestyle businesses?

There's not a lot I know about them -- basically a business with high enough margins that 6 hour days and trips are the norm. It sounds nice, but probably requires a good amount of already developed skills/connections to get that margin high enough to afford the lifestyle.

I suppose working with a minimalist/off-the-grid community also counts as lifestyle employment.
I'm really confused why you keep bringing up opencv. What does opencv have to do with the (presumably) TF ML model running on the IPU that you want to benchmark against the TF ML model running on a GPU?
Work is in progress to improve that: https://research.swtch.com/go2017#error
The other problem is that the BFR would carry 10 kt of fuel. Even a very small chance of that much fuel exploding anywhere near a major city is too much risk, so you'd have to put them well away from population centers. So you can tack on a couple hours to the spaceport on each end.
Paging Jepsen. Paging Jepsen.

Edit: some work's been done:

https://pingcap.github.io/blog/2017/09/01/tidbmeetsjepsen/
It doesn't bother me personally, and of course I know I am replaceable even though I do differentiate myself.

I was just pointing out that they over-promote the 'effectiveness' of teamwork.

They sell it based on improved problem solving, when they really want it for operational reasons.
We voted with our money that we didn't give a damn about quality hardware or software.
Casey Johnston writes for The Wirecutter and used to work for Ars Technica. She did a review video (which I won't bother digging up since this thread is dead) surveying different keyboard technologies. She doesn't need a reminder to learn about how her keyboard works.

Edit: in retrospect, that's why the "original sources only" rule is important. Half the comments here wouldn't even have been made if people had started there.
I love this quote thanks for sharing, only thing wrong is that it's framed as career advice and not just general advice. I've spent my life thus far following an explicit path checking the boxes I was 'supposed' to and it was making me deeply unhappy.
Not yet, I think? There was some discussion in July this year:

https://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/business-aviation/20...

Eventually the bill passed, it has a provision that the FAA should "obtain the input of aerospace industry stakeholders regarding the appropriate regulatory framework and timeline", and report back next year.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/2997...
Overall a really solid video about the modern state of computer graphics, with a comprehensive tour of the cutting edge realism of light and fluid, the current tricks and limitations used in the modern cutting edge, and then an exploration of the artists and formats that strive to be on the cutting edge of computer graphics while also not aiming for realism.
The (lack of an) Oxford comma strikes again! My reading of parent is "...it was almost always Google having to fight against local government, and monopolies playing dirty" - the local government was fighting, but only the monopolies were playing dirty (e.g. by lobbying States to make laws that prevent local governments from "interfering" with the said monopolies by cozying up to Google or providing municipal internet infrastructure)
I get what you are saying. My doubt is because most businesses are not Walmart (etc).

What matters at the scale of a large retailer (so large as to dwarf Amazon) is not what matters at most places. It's not just that Walmart is dealing with fungible goods, it is also that:

+ Walmart's online store is dealing with legacy pre-internet database architectures on the back end.

+ Walmart's online store is competing with Walmart's brick and mortar stores when it comes to architecting IT infrastructures and allocating resources and the brick and mortar stores eclipse Walmart's etailing.

Because I think Yahoo is pretty good due to being consistently profitable, I will forgo the softball snark of "Why would a tech company want to be like Yahoo?" But there is really question of whether the best practices of the companies you list are appropriate for a business in a narrow market.

Going further, if it is an area of concern choose technologies and page architectures that don't run the risk. Angular and React are developed to meet the needs of companies at the scale of Google and Facebook not a shop where the collective knowledge does not include experts at page repaint metrics.
Data is pouring over the edge
I have been using one for over two years. The first month I had enough problems I thought that the keyboard was definitely broken. Since then I’ve had minimal to no problems. Certain typing styles certainly could make the keyboard unusable.
>I've taken this course myself, and I would argue that this measured approach to learning C is far superior to throwing students (most of whom have no low-level programming experience) straight into C.

Sure, I'd love to read this argument. I taught myself to program, started with python, then learned C. The hurdle of learning how memory is mapped, the knowledge/understanding gained by being required to clean up after yourself when you do *alloc. That's what makes learning C helpful. Perhaps I gave up reading the introduction to soon, but honestly, after I read it adds in GC to C.... I had the same reaction everyone else has already voiced. "Why use C here?" There's many other better languages if your just adding in hand holding.

Finally, if grading assignments was one of the defining reasons for inventing a new language, you need to take a step back from the text editor, and ask... "How did I get here?"
WF founder chiming in here ... the beauty of giving designers the ability to create CSS classes, build with the box model, and think about HTML/CSS concepts is so they can leverage the power of the browser to help them design a production ready, responsive website. There may be designers that are allergic, but there are also many that embrace it.

You can see some sites designers have built visually here: https://webflow.com/discover/popular
I agree with you on Netflix. 5th horsemen candidates on my short list: Microsoft and SoftBank. Tesla if they can stop burning money and cut out the hype? Verizon as a long stretch.
There is an ongoing reflexion on making error handling less verbose, but as you can see in the link below, there are tradeoffs, as always:

https://github.com/golang/go/issues/21161
Did this the other day and I had a productive 4-5 hours and called it a day. Was actually somewhat relived - as a freelancer - that my work day had a fixed limit after which you justifiable had to stop. Like leaving school in your childhood without the slightest concern.
Also, there was JXCore.
It is garbage collected, and includes both a heap of safety features and better compiler messages. This is a very nice set of features for people learning about data structures and memory management.
Seems a bit ironic that a successful bootstrapped business owner would want to do angel investing.
Digitizing science: Electronic lab notebooks
I've replied here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15500321 I think I mean to reply to you.
One of the worst things about rich people is their incredibly damaging refusal to admit the primary cause of their wealth is blind luck.
How is Apple a public institution?
depends what kind of security researcher. AppSec is p hot rn. Mobile sec is p hot. Browser security research can still advance quite a ways. ExploitDev is always popular. Just depends what niche you want to go into. Once you know your niche, just start publishing research (vulns, analysis, something interesting FFS) and sharing it online. If the research is legit, it's not hard to get noticed.
How does it compare the (discontinued) JXCore?
Hmm, a person using personal knowledge in the hopes of debunking a moderately widespread viewpoint is equivalent to holocaust denial in your world view.

I want to hear more about your interesting take on reality.