skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Lay-flat came to the game relatively late so I'm not sure about direct impact on the Concorde

Lay flat preceded the Concorde. More than that, it was caused by it. "In 1977, El Al announced plans to reconfigure its aircraft with a small first class cabin and larger business class cabin on the assumption that most transatlantic first-class passengers would shift their business to the Concorde" [1].

EDIT: This is all wrong.

> Relatively few people are really in a situation where the few hours in a comfortable plane are worth $$$$

Business class is where airlines make the bulk of their profits.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_class#History
Why bit shifting in JavaScript slower than multiply?
Not at all. Interpretations are interpretations, not changes to the mathematical mechanisms.
you can check their github account, they have several static analysis tools written in ocaml

and then they have reason, is being used heavily in messenger

https://reasonml.github.io/community/blog/#messengercom-now-...
I agree. I feel like going to MDN to quickly look up syntax is like trying to kill a fly with a handgun.
The literary version of "Disregard" is called "The anxiety of influence" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Anxiety_of_Influence
Whoops, you're right, it was a quadjet. My memory screwed up because both engines on each side are so right next to each other, in my memory they fused into a single engine on each side.
Bookmark that. I use the following:

https://www.google.com/webhp?hl=en&newwindow=1&num=30

I remove the ei identifier from the bookmark. I guess this is a unique ID that makes it possible for google to keep following me if I happen to bookmark it. Eg:

ei=Vo_n34buB9Cabdedfk6gO

And I happen to like the W3school examples, especially CSS. They've helped me many times. I don't see the problem with them, but please ignore them if you don't like it.
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Living in the rural mid-Atlantic U.S., I've definitely seen a lot of Dollar Generals popping up all over the place. Never knew they carried groceries like meat and produce, though.
It depends on what kind of applications and control you need. I can work on my own stuff at home very easily on a laptop because I have a fairly streamlined process. I can just tab between my terminal and text editor. I can't do that with my job, since I need probably 20 different programs running at once: multiple browser windows, debugger, specialized programs, chat window, email window, multiple text editors and guis... it's a major hassle on a laptop.
I've been that less experienced developer, using w3schools would save a minute or two on certain searches. Now I enjoy going to MDN and learning a few extra things on a given topic, or reinforcing an existing understand, via MDN. Sometimes i'll lose 15 minutes crawling a few tangential links - worth.
Nervana and Movidius were separate acquisitions by Intel and were relatively recent. I’d be surprised if they managed to merge the software efforts that quickly.
"It uses one neural network rather than two."
and
"AlphaGo Zero only uses the black and white stones from the Go board as its input, whereas previous versions of AlphaGo included a small number of hand-engineered features."

This is amazing! The technology they came up with must be super generic.
http://www.w3fools.com/ top of the page summarizes the situation:

> When W3Fools was launched in 2011, the state of documentation for developers was poor. This site documented many content errors and issues with the W3Schools website. The Mozilla Developer Network was around but it did not have much support at the time.

> Today, W3Schools has largely resolved these issues and addressed the majority of the undersigned developers' concerns. For many beginners, W3Schools has structured tutorials and playgrounds that offer a decent learning experience. Do keep in mind: a more complete education will certainly include MDN and other reputable resources.

MDN would greatly benefit from more soft documentation and a playground setup similar to W3Schools
W3Schools is a decent introduction though.

When I was just starting out it was nice to be able to quickly look up the syntax of a basic JOIN SQL statement on w3schools.
Are you sure they want to or did they just go out of business? If you were the person hiring them then they would probably feel compelled to present themselves as enthusiastic about wanting to be an employee. You are probably not getting their true feelings. It feels pretty wretched to admit defeat and go begging for your job back but you do it with a smile if you've got mouths to feed.
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Dollar General is like Krispy Kreme was year ago. They are in hyper growth building stores everywhere. Stores like what you describe get lost in the growth.

If the company is successful, it will know that and it will purge the lousy stores. Otherwise, they’ll implode when the interest rates go up and they can’t borrow money anymore.
Exactly. Sometimes I just close MDN and then click on w3schools link for this reason.
I can speak to why I prefer Target over Walmart: much quicker to get in and out (because the Target parking lot is smaller and less congested, and the store is much smaller and less congested) and... if I have to need to speak to an employee I am much more likely to have a productive pleasant experience.
It's more than getting drawn into conversations. In a different place, where you don't know anyone, it is also more likely that you will not be annoyed by someone that you have a history with with simply hearing their voice. So merely noticing the sound of 'johns' voice is enough to set you and distract and/or bother. But if you don't know 'john' it's simply not the same impact.

An similar example would be my reaction to leaf blowers or lawn mowers outside my office. When they come I am always annoyed and bothered. However equally disturbing or loud (if you want to call it that) noises I typically don't care about. It's the 'hear it goes again!' that makes it (to me at least) disturbing.
Maybe someone with domain knowledge is around here: could we make a spacious long range super sonic airplane today, with our modern tech? Think something a bit smaller than the 747, for example.

Why isn't it considered viable? The world is 2x richer than the last time the Concorde flew...
Dear videographers, when you pick a "photorealistic" opening scene, make sure the first major object you see (the palm tree) doesn't look like its made of plastic. It also helps if you don't try and mix close up objects on far away objects (the transition from grass to what appears to be a white-sand delta or a glacier).

Also, if it is a glacier, snow and running water reflect light very differently.

Just three points in the first 10 seconds which puts "the battle for photo-real CGI has been won" on awful shaky ground.

It seems, to me, like photorealism is currently possible for static images, but the moment you add motion, it all goes to hell.
You could have said the same thing about Microsoft's late entry into the touchscreen smartphone market.
I'm not sure why you'd pick the coffee shop over the library, but a big part of it is getting out of the house. I personally don't want to work from home. I don't want to bring work home; I want home and work separate, so I have a place to forget about work.
Give it six months and his startup will either fail, or have enough work that this isn't feasible anymore. He's very young and thinks he's going to do what a million other companies haven't been able to do yet. Good luck bud.
Ya I get what you're saying. Buddy of mine made this barebones calculator that allows you to see the kind of monetary impact any site could expect when working on performance: https://wwwillchen.github.io/web-perf-budget/

It's still a prototype and missing a lot of explanation, but the numbers behind it are solid.
Eli5 a true qubit
Non-targeted and non-interactive marketing can be done ethically (if you grant that any marketing can be ethical). Perhaps we are all just waking up to the true nature of marketing, and seeing its unbridled ugliness for the first time.
https://github.com/stanford-futuredata/ASAP/blob/master/ASAP...
Most is done on the GPU nowadays - only getImageData() and putImageData() has to go via the CPU.

You can BTW also "cheat" your way to meta-balls:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17177748/increasing-real...
much of the time, you want the output to sync to the input.

but oftentimes you don't.

the trick is finding a good way to walk that tightrope.
Artificial Intelligence Learns to Learn Entirely on Its Own
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That's cool. My point still stands.

Illegal immigrants don't comply with our labor laws, don't pay taxes, suppress wages in the area, don't have the leverage that a legal worker does, and bring down the quality of life for local lower class legal workers.

I don't blame them for doing it, I know they're just trying to live the best life they can. But that doesn't mean I'll ignore the economic impact they have on the lower class.
You Can Have Two Big Things, but Not Three
Will PC makers beat Apple in designing ARM notebooks
At this point (trying to be a good citizen, not using an ad blocker) the ads on the site lock up my computer, and a simple lookup turns into a substantial time investment. Vs MDN doesn't have this issue.
Archaeologists Discover Pyramid Belonging to Archaic Civilization in Romania
What specs? You have specs for this chip? AFAIK no benchmarks have been disclosed.
And they're good enough for the majority of people and the majority of tasks the majority of the time
3 Small Steps to Make a Product Users Love
If this is the only designed in way to make multiple queries without saying "Hey Siri" repeatedly, then it is required for that operation. You literally have people above calling this the "solution" to the issue raised.

It is like Schrödinger's UI design. It is both being claimed as the solution to the problem being raised while at the same time being called entirely optional. Sounds to me like there is no actual solution, and this is a bandaid.
Comparing the top player's ELO with Zero's ELO (assuming numbers are accurate, etc):

Your rating: 3664

Opponent's rating: 5000

Probability of winning: 0.000456879355457417

So 1 in 2,200 games... ouch
I almost find this hard to believe, unless you seen it somewhere with poor resolution or lighting. Sure they did a good job, but they were so noticeable it broke the spell of the movie for me. They are the best proof that we are still in the uncanny valley.
Apple never hosted web-related docs, so they probably don’t care.
I urge you to watch Blade Runner 2049. Minor spoiler: there is a scene involving Rachael. They brought in the original actress and de-aged her face digitally to look like she did in her 20s and the effect was... mind-bogglingly close to perfect. Easily the best facial CG I've seen so far.
It's really not that simple. Part of the violence that abusers use to abuse is the fact that they are inherently protected by the way that reporting affects victims.

We need to change the structures around reporting abuse before we can expect more victims to report abuse. It's really that simple - when you can't trust HR, your coworkers, the public at large or the police not to provide cover or justification for abuse, it's very difficult to report.
Not sure if you know about Boom ?

https://boomsupersonic.com/
It's the "CS 050 Computer Science for Humanities Majors" type of commenting (I was a humanities major, no offense intended). A bunch of comments that are only there because you think you have to have comments, or because you're graded on whether or not comments exist.
> There was a much-hyped database a few years ago that failed to live up to the hype because of exactly that architecture. I can't even remember the name now when I was trying to find the post-mortem analysis for it in Google.

FoundationDB, acquired and taken internal by Apple. There were a few different blog posts about the layering aspect of it, with mixed opinions.

They built a transactionally consistent distributed database that was mysql client compatible and within 50% of mysql single node performance. If creating that and getting it bought by Apple is failing, I hope I'm lucky enough to fail like that.

> I'm also skeptical of a database claiming to be good at both OLAP and OLTP. One requires a column store, the other a row store. You can be half-decent as an OLAP store and good as a OLTP store.

This is a rigid and narrow view. There's lots of other design possibilities such as fractured mirrors, column decommission only within pages, etc.

I wouldn't call a single db that can do both OLAP and OLTP easy or a slam dunk, but I also wouldn't rule it out. VoltDB is well proven and worth looking at.
"Boom" is a terrible name for a company hoping to popularise supersonic transport. The "Boom" is not something they should be drawing attention to!
I explicitly stated that by analogy it does not make sense, while containers contain something and works as analogy. But you chose to disregard that part of the answer.
The problem is that platforms enable this kind of behavior. Once it's the open, someone will take advantage of it, and then others would only put themselves at a disadvantage by not doing it too. The real question is, how did our infrastructure become so exploitable?

That's not to say there aren't companies that don't play this kind of game. But on a spectrum of care and don't care, most are in the middle.
Out of curiosity, did you see it in 3D? Most of my friends that saw it in 3D were complaining about how bad the renderd Leia and Tarkin were, but very few of my friends who saw it in 2D had any complaints about it.
Would be fascinated to hear anything you (or anyone in a related field) has to say on the challenges for cooling to such low temperatures.

Is it essentially just heat-removal + lots of layers of isolated, effective insulation, or are there fundamental differences when you're going that low?
Very nicely presented! A few spelling and phrasing suggestions:

s/in order and independents/in order and independent/;
s/Multiplataform/Multiplatform/;
s/Have you got any doubt?/Questions? Ask us!/;
s/you’ll must have a user account/you must have a user account/;
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The article takes no position on that question.
I don't really agree with you. In my opinion the author says so about people who are in the same position as him.

And in this case I also think it is true, if your only goal is money, then you will not spend it and waste it on anything, which will results in more money
Not everyone comes into college with extensive programming experience.
Over at the Wikipedia it's reported that the latest D-Wave products have 2048 qubits. So, I would hope that announcing a processor with only 17 means a fundamental shift.

Of course, it could be marketing running away with it.
Forecasts are being pushed in the mainstream media that tout that 50% of all existing US jobs will be wiped out in the next 10 to 15 years. It has reached manic levels.

35-50 years, probably still wildly over the top. 10-15? Zero chance. If you had the perfect solution in a lab that could, for example, replace truck drivers today, you couldn't even get that fully implemented & distributed such that it cleared out 50% of all trucking jobs in 10-15 years. The entire economy? It'd be laughable if there weren't so much fear mongering involved in pushing these bogus forecasts.

It's another example of people over-estimating change in the near-term. In 1999, ecommerce was going to immediately threaten all physical retail with extinction. If you didn't get on that hype train, you were toast. 23 years post founding, with year after year of incredible growth, Amazon is still just 1/4 the size of Walmart. As it turns out, it more often takes a long time to change the world.
In many countries, and in many social circles, Facebook can be thought of as a relatively integral part of society. In the same way that internet access has been ruled a basic human right, I think in certain circles, Facebook is getting close enough that they can't hide behind "we don't want you" anymore, and need to acknowledge the fact that they are more like a public utility.
But where would I find all my apps like Evernote, Skype, Numi, Tyke, Alfred etc. ?
So there really is something about the blood of virgins?
Here's the official form of Joseph's writing project that supports Org mode: https://github.com/kaushalmodi/writing-org

Live site: https://org.scripter.co

I got the below Org syntax to work so far.. You can try by copying the test file I have so far ( https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kaushalmodi/writing-org/ma... ) and pasting in the above live site.

Pasting the same below just for reference.

* Heading level 1
** Heading level 2
*** Heading level 3

Paragraphs get created
only after an empty line.

This will be a new paragraph.

* List syntax is the same as Markdown

- List 1
- List 2

asdf (*!bug!* non-list breaker text should not be needed. Two empty lines should end a list.)

1. Ordered
2. Ordered

*!bug!* No white-space following an ordered list.

* Inline Code

=code=

== =code= ==

== abc = def ==
* Bold
*bold*
*bold * asdf*
- Press =Ctrl+B= to toggle bold.
* Italics
/italics / adsf/
- Press =Ctrl+I= to toggle italics.
* Horizontal rule
Above the horizontal rule
-----
Below the horizontal rule

* Source blocks
#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
(message "foo")
#+END_SRC
Ask HN: How much do you make at Facebook/Apple/Netflix/Google?
I am curious as to how these numbers have changed in the last couple of years.

I work for Google and make ~ $300k every year (160 base+salary and 140 stock). I am a L4 and have 5 years of experience out of college.

Discussions from 2 years ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10758278

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11314449

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11312984
This makes me so happy. We need statues, currency, and all sorts of toys that make Powerful Women normal in society
It does not have a TPU matrix multiply unit.

That unit is massive, and wouldn't fit in a small die like this.

It seems likely it's optimized for the same kind of operations though, even if it doesn't have a matrix multiply unit.

I would guess the main intended use for this silicon is running neural networks, even though the initial use case is for photos.

Nearly all AI things on phones (voice recognition, google assistant's local features, keyboard predictive language model, offline translation, etc.) are severely compute limited, and could perform much better with this silicon.

Some features are obvious candidates to put on-device, like realtime recognition of the contents of a photo, realtime wavenet voice synthesis, yet compute limitations preclude it.
Hopefully someone can expand on these comments since I'm not an expert, but I know a little.

D-Wave [1] is shipping quantum computers with thousands of qubits. The difference seems to be that D-Wave qubits are not generalized qubits, but rather they are simply designed to solve problems using quantum annealing [1]. Annealing is just one algorithm which efficiently (but probabilistically) looks for the global minimum of a function, but it is prone to getting stuck in local minima. Quantum annealing exploits quantum phenomena to do this better and probably more efficiently [2].

On the other hand, we have "general" qubits: these can implement and carry out any arbitrary quantum computing algorithm (for example, Grover's search algorithm or Shor's factorization algorithm). It seems to me that researchers at Alphabet, Rigetti, Intel, IBM, etc. are trying to build these general qubits, since that's where we can finally unlock the full power of quantum computing. It's also much harder to build these general qubits, and that's why we only see 17 qubits announced here, or Google claiming to be working on 49 qubits [3].

[1] https://www.dwavesys.com/sites/default/files/D-Wave%202000Q%...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_annealing

[3] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-07-17/google-s-...
My point is that i was not aware what "serverless" meant when i first came upon it and the word itself did not convey any meaning without a lot of context as it does not lend it self to analogies such as "server", "container" or even "cloud" for that matter.
I asked a tween relative whether they or anyone they know uses FB. They answered, "No one." They said they all use Instagram, though. So the current tween generation is still on an FB platform, just not FB itself.
Am I right in assuming that single ampersand is taken (like in C and/or for bitwise ops)?

I think things like "a|b" and "a&b" for or/and is fine - but when you need to stack them two and three deep, keywords starts to look more attractive... I think this holds true even for the relatively benign tripple-equal (===) used as a kind of stand-in for "a is b".

BTW, did I miss an obvious short intro to what these things are supposed to mean in zig? I feel I've overlooked an obvious quick-start document?

[ed: never mind - the post is just a bit hard to read on a cellphone - but nothing reader mode in Firefox can't fix]
> Since it is a superconducting chip, I'd like to know what OP meant when they said they mixed it up, because I don't see where they said superconducting where it isn't true and relatively relevant.

I believe that everywhere superconducting was used it was correct and using superposition instead would be wrong. So I agree with you there.
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He did not say "you will have money" but "if you want money" of course some people don't desire money, and that's fine
I have a 2017 MBP 15 with touch bar and love it. Granted it's newer, so I haven't had any key problems yet, but the keyboard is one of my favorite of all time. (I normally use a CODE keyboard with clear switches at work.) I also really like the touch bar. I've spent some time using BetterTouchTool to customize it, and it has definitely been helpful. The escape key is always there and you don't have to specifically hit it, as the space to the left of the key also functions as escape. For other function keys, they show up when you press the Fn key, which is how I had my old MBP setup anyway. You can also set it so that they always show up instead of the "normal" touch bar functionality.

Not saying you're wrong, just giving my feedback. I'm definitely not a fanboy by any means. I used a mint linux setup for the last year before switching back to mac, and wouldn't touch an iPhone with a 10ft pole. :)
Yeah. And the link is actually to a blog post from Microsoft stating they started redirecting MSDN pages to corresponding MDN ones.
>Apple has piles of cash, but I think their business is kind of fragile. The valuation is based on being able to create products which sell for very high premium. I don't see them going away, but they might dropped from their top position.

I’m a fan of Galloway, his YouTube stuff for L2 is great, but Amazon is beating Apple because of the Echo? Apple is now the number one watch company by revenue in the world.

Apple have been selling premium computers for 39 years. The Desktop OS market is impossible to break into. The Mac and DOS/Windows ecosystems have owned it since the 80s. Chrome is making headway, but only in a small niche.
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> I'm pretty sure that SpaceX's BFR in earth-to-earth configuration is targeted at the wealthy market you refer to

One of the challenges Virgin Galactic ran into in its sales efforts was the high co-incidence between (a) people who can pay for a super-expensive form of transport and (b) people whose Board, limited partnership or employment agreements prohibit them from doing super-risky stuff.