skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I upgraded today and it took me a few seconds to figure out where to click to open my editor. I have vscode right below sublime and the icon colors became almost identical. It was a mini wtf moment.

One thing I've learned as a developer is that for most users, colors probably matter more than anything else. You can build software that flies to the moon, but if it looks like a terminal shell aka "scary black window" as my wife calls it, it probably won't be a mainstream fav.
"uBlock Origin has prevented the following page from loading: coinhive.com"

I can't read what it's about but it looks like it's already blocked.

Anyone would mind to give a summary?
The LA Metro wants tech firms to help it launch a new kind of transit
You think it'll last two years?
Care too much
If you want to one day start a startup, the huge paycheck you get from the big companies can definitely make that a lot easier.
Which site are you experiencing the jank? https://webflow.com/interactions-animations or http://webflow.com/ix2
Without ranting too long about this, yes. SF transit is has been really deeply infiltrated by the mentally ill. Feces caked escalators, openly shooting up, masturbating on the cars, sleeping all day on the looping routes (there's an article out there about the muni buses that only shut down for a few hours a night, so the homeless will buy a day pass, ride for most of the day, repeat).

Turns out a few uniformed officers at the major platforms goes a long way. I've yet to see someone shooting heroin on a seattle transit platform, and I've never seen anyone's genitals. Huge step up from SF. Mental breakdowns on buses are both rare and mild relative to SF.
Overstock.com launched massive ICO
We have a two-man rule for such accounts: one person (or one group) is responsible for the password, and the other has the 2FA secret on their Yubikey. The other rule is to not use these accounts; as an example use use root AWS accounts once or twice a year when we need to fill in their forms.
How about just do it?

Ever shared a USB key or a company phone. There isn't much to describe.
Twitter announces new ‘transparency center’ for ads
Search "voter suppression" for what's being done now in this regard.
Looks like a bug! Thanks for the report. Will get that fixed asap.
They really should normalize the costs on a per square foot basis and the numbers would be even more start. Homes tend to be smaller in areas with really high per square foot costs.

It just seems so sad. When you're driving along the highway and you see all these tiny homes jam packed together like some sort of Gehtto, only 2 feet between each home and yet there's miles and miles of space in every direction, outside the complex. I'm talking about the exerbs that surround the bay area. According to one govt report i read, Only 5% of CA land is currently being used!
https://github.com/paragonie/certainty/commit/005181f421ca8f... :)
Ok, but you're crossing into ideological flamewar in this thread, which is against the HN guidelines. Would you please not do this?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: I was too quick here, as explained below.
5 Tasks Your Startup Should Outsource
It denotes attention to details from their side.
Rather than try to counteract the bias with an opposing one on the input pool, the answer can be to try to find new less-biased input pools to draw from.
huh? How can one love firebug over Chrome Dev Tools? With the latter being just as revolutionary as firebug was when it first came out.
Cosmic alchemy: Neutron star collision showed how universe creates gold
Define "best".
True. I agree with you!
Tracking feature requests is a huge pain for most companies. A few pieces of feedback after dealing with this for years:

The Customer Support teams of your customers are going to be one of the main channels for capturing feature requests. We use Zendesk and have custom fields for categorizing and sub-categorizing requests along with a brief description. We do this so that the PMs don't have to read the entire Support ticket if one sentence is about the feature request out of 10 pages of text. If you could build an integration with Zendesk and other major ticketing tools that tie support tickets directly into your product it'd be an easy way to get your customers to have a huge influx of important data.

Sales will also provide lots of feature requests as they are also talking to many customers. You have to make this as seamless and as easy as possible otherwise they won't use it. Setting up a Salesforce integration is probably your only way to do that.

Tracking feature requests for strategic customers need to be treated differently than for other customers. There needs to be a system to categorize tickets by customer cohorts. If you can tie ARR, deal-breakers or other metrics to feature requests, that will help PMs prioritize them.

For your customers, publicly exposing feature requests is a double-edged sword. You're going to capture a lot of feedback. Some of it is good, some is bad. Not taking action on customer feature requests can build negative sentiment in the community.
Is that the point? I ask, because the "weird" in the TPU is mostly its scale. Its not like you can't do matrix multiplies with the vector units on a CPU or with a GPU. Its really the scale, by that I mean its more elements than what you get with existing hardware, but its also lower precision, and appears less flexible, and is bolted to a heavyweight memory subsystem.

So, in that regard its no more "weird" than other common accelerator/coprocessors for things like compression.

So, in the end, what would show up in a phone doesn't really look anything like a TPU. I would maybe expect a lightweight piece of matrix acceleration hardware, which due to power constraints isn't going to be able to match what a "desktop" level FPGA or GPU is capable of much less a full blown TPU.
Too simplistic. I find that view to be severely lacking in any useful insight
I am currently listing to the audio book 'Black Earth' from Timothy Snyder. There the author shows the aforementioned links and inspirations for Stalin and Hitler in how the US dealt with the natives.

I am interested in how the analysis will progress further.
An Animation of Every Emoji
> You won't be able to make a choice about whether to drive around with a slightly broken car part like that.

As I mentioned in another post: cars already have these sensors in the form of short range (ultrasound?) sensors for parking. These are regularly covered with ice if you live in a winter climate, and in that situation the parking sensors will continuously beep when you have the car in reverse. A human driver just ignores that and backs out anyway, because you look with your eyes and see nothing, so you assume the warning is false and due to ice. The device isn't even broken, it's just temporarily not able to work until the ice has melted, which is a few hours away when the sun comes up.

An autonomous car could just say "I don't trust the readings from the sensors so you are on your own kid" and I'd drive. And that would be sort of fine (although it can't be several dozen mornings then it's annoying).

But an autonomous taxi can't do that. This is why I think assistant drivers such as teslas autopilot, that can just defer driving to a human, will be around for a very long time (Decades) before we have fully autonomous cars that can drive without backup driver.
In Screen.rip, generated PDF is a real PDF, which you can select and annotate. Check https://screen.rip/#pdf
Plus, being used to a blue icon means everytime I go to switch applications I have to remind myself what to look for.
Google can't offer me anything I want anymore. They could have when I was less experienced, but I have enough in my toolbox that ending up stuck in a Google ecosystem for years and losing my edge would be a net negative.

(I guess there's always the wheelbarrow of money, but they don't really even do that anymore, at least here in Boston.)
Viking 1 landed on Mars only 12 years later. Interesting that a paper about exploring the possibility of a computerized machine on Mars is written a scant 12 years before an actual landing of a fairly complex lander. Life between, say, 1960 and 1980 must have felt at a breakneck pace.

Viking 1 lander's abilities:

https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/viking1landata.html
We recently did a comparative analysis of cloud speech-to-text providers for a project. We looked at:

1. Google Cloud Speech API

2. Microsoft Bing Speech API

3. IBM Watson Speech to Text

The ranking was as listed above but we had real challenges working with call-center audio recordings. The quality was less than idea but still very clear. We saw a huge reduction in accuracy compared to in-browser testing. Additionally Australian English is particularly not solved.

Because Google's API isn't currently doing speaker-detection, we looked at using Watson's speaker-detection as a secondary step but found it too complex and error prone. There is definitely room for a startup in this area and it also needs continued investment from the bigger cloud providers.
There is no question it a proper desk makes an improvement. starting with 4-5 feet wide, and about 30" deep is a good place to go.

The key thing a desk enables is ergonomics, productivity, and avoiding fatigue through allowing a variety of work configuration.

I have had a standing desk for almost 5 years, and while I don't religiously stand or sit for any period of time, I just stand when I'm feeling restless, and sit when tired. Works great.

A desk isn't a desk without what you do on it, mine also has:

- A table top of your preferred size, attached to a standing desk, with a quality desk is invaluable. Prime Cables sells standing desk legs for under $200.
- I run three 24" QHD monitors, replaced 2 27" QHD monitors. Less neck movement, and way more pixels. It's not just about screensize, but number of usable pixels.
- MS Sculpt ergonomic keyboard that i switch with the freestyle
- MS Sculpt mouse

All attached to a MBP.

I wasn't a fan of the keyboard and mouse, but once I got used to it in a few weeks, I can't type on my laptop anymore with pain. Don't feel like you need all of the above, I've arrived at what I have one piece at a time, trying different things.
I do it a month at a time and yeah I eventually get over it but never fully into the same calm state as with carbs
Referring to a duck as a swan does not make it any less a duck.
Have you explicitly authorized them to provide you search and mail-based information in Google Now?
I think I mentioned once in HN how I flashed a few times a home router, with a failed result each time (red led). Then my brother walked by and saved me from my misery telling me that the led is actually orange-greenish which means that the flashing was successful.

I had a support guy fly cross - country for the same reason (I was seeing red leds on a key switch while they were orange)
October 5th, 2017 is a day I will always remember. It was the day I became cynical, bitter, and distraught. You may call it an overreaction for me to feel this way simply because of the business practices of a single software company, but let me explain what all of this means to me.

My life was thrown off balance and I never regained my footing after that day, because I lost my ability to respect. An essential part of being human is to feel respect for those who may or may not be deserving of it. But it is equally human to feel painful disillusionment when someone or something you respected turns out to be much less than you thought. But the level of betrayal I felt when Microsoft announced their new VSCode icon tore something from me that I'll never be able to recover. They tore away my ability to respect anything, and they tore away my ability to feel human.

Microsoft was a company I respected, and their employees were people I looked up to. Visual Studio, SQL Server, MS Office were all quality software products that combined user friendliness with powerful features. These programs may have been mass-market-oriented at times, but deep down they were always sophisticated and crafted with a level of detail and skill that won appreciation from power users all across the internet. VSCode was their newest release, and the internet was in unanimous agreement that it was of unparallelled quality. Following it's long awaited release, Microsoft began releasing quality updates that raised the bar ever higher for text editors.

Then 1.17 was announced. This was not just an announcement of an update, it was announcement of Microsoft's suicide. It was an update intended to completely disregard any design principle, and instead shock the entire world with its lunacy. Microsoft had gone off the deep end and raised the middle finger to everybody who stayed loyal to them. They had announced that they didn't care anymore, that they didn't care for their community, and they were going to go out of their way to sabotage everything they had spent years creating.

The pain I felt from this betrayal has destroyed me on an emotional level, and has deprived me of my primary source of entertainment. No longer can I use text editors without remembering the day I ceased mattering to people I devoted myself to. Microsoft had not just destroyed me or their company, they had destroyed the one force of stability in the world: Trust.
Not to detract from what the U.S. govt did to natives, but a more likely explanation is that concentration camps are... the obvious thing to build if you want to isolate a population. I don't think the internment camps in the U.S. during WWII were modeled after Nazi concentration camps, and certainly they weren't in that there were no extermination facilities in the internment camps, thank goodness. A "camp" is just too obvious to suppose it's modeled on some past "invention" of the camp.
I'm curious about that - I'm no expert in keto-diet.
How do you assess self-control? I mean, could it be just reversion to the mean, you swing into very low then bounce back and feel like it's better than it was before?
FCC ends a rule requiring broadcasters to have a local studio
Clearing the cache actually clears cached redirections.
This seems to be a trend that I see across open source projects. They blog about features that Oracle has had for 25 years as if it's something new. Can someone enlighten me as to why there's interest around X DB's implementation of something that's been built dozens of times before?
Regarding Firefox Developer Tools. Is there a way to set older dark theme there? I don't like the current one that appeared in Firefox 57. Previous had milder / metal colors.
Can you share more details of your setup? (my contact details are on profile)
42% of Americans under 8 have their own tablet
Can anybody figure out the year? Edit: I mean of the film?
Ah, fair point there. I had not considered that.
What this tells me is that the near future of AI is going to be solely the domain of megacorporations who can drop >$25M USD on hardware (figure from the linked thread). That's pretty disappointing.
Udemy gets a makeover
Whats interesting in recent years it came up that children in Germany were learning about "Polish concentration camps", highly alluding that those places had more to do with polish people than with Germans (that they were of polish evil invention and ran by polish people).

There is also a long "tradition" in Germany to detach Germans from what they did in past. For example, average Dutch will not tell you "Germans start World War 2", he/she will tell you "Nazis Started World War 2". This goes very far. Before that, it wasn't Germans who were slaughtering Europeans, it was Teutonic Order.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teutonic_Order
IDE-Like Features in Vim with Language Servers
Yes https://screen.rip/#pdf
I'm looking at the "accountability" part a little differently. It's not necessarily going to be some built in rules in the coin that hold people accountable. Instead one of the critical philosophies I've adopted is "enable the people who hold the coin". The coin won't hold people accountable, the tooling needs to be available to allow people to hold other people accountable.
This even goes for high school counselors. I grew up in a suburban family with all of that knowledge of the system. My wife went to a similar high school, but is a first generation college student. She found out that she was supposed to take the ACT from a fellow student mere days before the deadline. Her counselor told her to ask her mom about college visits.
By sticking the same base code into Google Authenticator or similar?
No, I mean locktimed transactions, or chains of transactions as you see in payment channels.

Doing a mandatory change to how signatures are calculated invalidates all of these constructs, potentially burning coins (if people lock-timed them to the future) and certainly breaking the security of all existing payment channels.
Was this really just girls? I knew plenty of guys who played as well.
Good luck to any victim site instructing the entirety of their userbase to do that. Especially when the users can't access the site to begin with.
This is not news worthy. What is news worthy is the amount of data that VSCode tracks and sends back to MS.
Good. The orange icon was literally the worst thing to happen since they colored Sonic's arms blue.
> It’s the only way to go from ASR which works for some people, most of the time to ASR which works for all people, all of the time.

All people all the time doesn't remotely work for people, either. That's why the Air Force, for example, uses the Phonetic Alphabet, and aviation in general uses special jargon that is harder to misinterpret, such as "affirmative" for "yes".

http://militarytimechart.com/military-phonetic-alphabet/

Radio DJs and actors tend to enunciate more clearly than regular people do. You'll notice this more if you speed up the sound - the professionals are still clear at higher speeds where non-professionals become unintelligible.
> Also: protip for people in the South or Midwest who are open to relocation: change your online profiles to say you're in the new location.

That'll work at getting more calls, but won't the increase in calls just mean more offers for work without relocation packages?
When a recruiter contacted me for a position at Google in 2012, I happened to be also taking
Daphne Koller's Coursera class on Probabilistic Graphical Models (PGM).

I was puzzled why the recruiter wanted to know my SAT score. He also wanted to know the college and high school I went to and my GRE score and my undergrad GPA ... Keep in mind that I have a BS, MS, Phd in three different engineering fields and over a decade of work experience at well know companies in the Bay area. For a 40 something engineer it seemed odd he would ask me information from two decades ago but I went along assuming he was filling in some boxes for HR.

The first assignment in the Probabilistic Graphical Models class was to predict the likelihood that a candidate would be a good fit for a job given prior Bayesian probabilities for ivy league school attended, SAT score, GRE score, all forming nodes of a decision tree.

I looked at the problem assignment and the recruiters questions and realized what was going on.
Some Stanford grad at Google had convinced HR that they needed an objective way to evaluate
hundreds of candidates and what better way than to use the same methods that they had
learnt from Daphne Koller at Stanford.

I quit the PGM class 'cause it seemed like a tool I would never use.
I decline interviews at Google since I don't have the right Bayesian probabilities that
would trigger a positive outcome for their PGM model.
Congrats guys :)

Also good call on the name change!
The thing I'm questioning is how you could describe being proportionate to the candidate pool as "a large problem."

Lack of diversity in STEM is a large problem, but your payroll matching the market doesn't seem like a large problem.
The same thing can be said with earthquakes and much of California. It's only a matter of time until a devastating earthquake hits, at least with hurricanes you have time to evacuate.
No idea, I don't use Google Now. I hope so, but it wouldn't surprise me if Google "forgot" about that step. But at least that's for the benefit of the user.
"I'd like to see a Waymo Pacifica going north on I-75 the morning after we get 6-8 inches of snow."

This kills the argument.
There is a huge disconnect between these flashy ideas and what you can actually use to create software. Showing cool ideas is great, but there needs to be interfaces that scale to complex software and a realistic way to integrate them with languages that already exist. Brand new languages with no eco system and without mature compilers backing them are not going to allow general software to be written in them.
Why did everyone stop hosting js files locally? Why not pull content from the same server that is sending html, the speed improvement by using a cdn should be low with the size of libruaries these days.
> it’ll be a lot more common for people to live to 100.

Would you really want to though? I'm relatively young, but after about 70 I don't think I'd really want to live anymore.

This is mainly due to genetics, as the body and brain start to give around that time (in my family).

I'm sure it's different for other's, but for many just the fact that their bones are brittle enough to prevent basic things would be too much of a constraint to handle.
With all due respect, Oracle doesn't provide ACID semantics across a cluster spanning several continents...
> But you will. The entire point is to put this in a phone, so you can distribute a trained neural net in a way that people can actually use without a desktop and $500-$4,000 GPU.

As far as I can tell, they put a microphone on your phone and then relay your voice to Google's servers for analysis.

Or Amazon's servers, in the case of the Echo.

I don't see any near-term future where Google's TPUs become widely available for consumers: be it on a phone or desktop. And I'm not aware of any product from the major hardware manufacturers that even attempt to replicate Google's TPU architecture.

NVidia and AMD are sorta going the opposite direction: they're making their GPUs more and more flexible (which will be useful in a wider variety of problems), while Google's TPUs specialize further and further into low-precision matrix multiplications.
Sounds as a good feature for a team or enterprise subscription.
> 50 years seems more like the timeline for domesticating Vulpes vulpes, which started in 1959, and has the notable limitation that foxes can't have thousands of offspring per year, whereas cultivated plants can.

A bull or stallion can't normally have thousands of offspring each year, but the miracle of modern cloning or insemination or surrogacy techniques allows it. :) The fox breeding program took as long as it did mostly because of budget limits. If they had had an unlimited budget, they could have had a much larger fox population allowing for much more extreme levels of selection each generation and used techniques like artificial insemination to make selection even more extreme, and of course today more money would also buy marker-assisted selection techniques... (I don't know if anyone has worked out insemination techniques for foxes but, well, that's probably just more money too.)

If for some reason you wanted to redo the fox program now and had $1b to throw at it, I'd be surprised if it took more than 10 years (set up a population of 10k foxes, whole-genome all of them, start inseminating from the elite 1-10% for multiple assessments + GWAS, cycle as fast as they reach 1yr & sexual maturity; each generation gets you ~1SD behavioral change, 10 years get you ~10SDs).

Fast, cheap, big changes, marketable on the EU/USA as 'not a GMO' - choose three.