skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Shoot,next time I need to ctrl-f my bright idea...
I believe you have 18 months after the NBN arrives before you are forced to switch.

The NBN has come to my area. I am on Telstra 100Mbps HFC and it has worked pretty much flawlessly for years.

I have heard from various people in the area how terrible the NBN is.

I'm not switching until as late as I possibly can.
You just play games at marginally inferior quality. Our new work on Sway also will let you use multiple GPUs without any proprietary interfaces, so you can do 3x 4K on AMD too. Regarding Deep Learning, that's too bad. If you can afford a 3x 4K setup though you can probably afford to have a Nvidia GPU for Deep Learning and an AMD GPU for your desktop.

There are compromises you can make, most of them easy. None of this is my problem as the maintainer of Sway.
I don't think it's that bad. It's meant to be practical and inoffensive rather than especially stylish.
Don't waste that anger. Vote left (Or at least be very careful with your preference flows) at the next election. And get everyone you can to start talking/pushing for a Royal Commission into this.
When migrating from 56K modem to ADSL it was amazing. The same cannot be said from the migration from ADSL2+ to NBN Fiber to the home was nice, but wasn't WOW.

The whole NBN has turned into a complete joke. If they would of stuck to rolling out fiber everywhere it would solved everything. Nope we now have to have a hybrid of everything.
The Hack Standard Library: v1.0
> In particular, I'm somewhat astonished to find out that the US Government apparently developed or intended to develop agents to disrupt agriculture which would appear as though they were natural occurrences.

That's like the least astonishing Cold War covert op I can think of. This was the time of generals who though they could levitate and walk through walls, for goodness sake. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Stubblebine
NASA JPL Seeks Proposals for Europa Lander Descent Camera
Precisely why making social network sites like Facebook and Reddit is really hard.
Yes! I want to see more shadertoy on HN
I haven't seen any evidence that this is the case here.
I loathe all politicians including the left wing. I just loathe the right wing more.

None of them represent the citizens. They represent their own grasping self interest.

And I certainly don't agree with the far left who seem to have an anti corporate/anti capitalist whiff to them ... I'm a committed capitalist AND green and they is no political party aligned to that.
> In Australia it's socially acceptable to barge into people doing this

I've been tempted.
If you're comparing this to paid social media advertising, the hospital is not an analogy for kim kardashian. Tesla's efforts are what generated the attention, not the hospital itself that Tesla is piggy backing
And that's not even covering the reason why the NBN was necessary in the first place. Howard's/Costello's (former Liberal PM and treasurer) privatisation of the essentially monopoly government-run communications provider without any separation of retail from wholesale or HFC network from telephony network.

It was the equivalent of pre-breakup AT&T, Verizon, Comcast, Cox (and the only competition was Optus, probably equivalent in market share then to Charter now) all in one go without breaking up anything. Oh, and guess what, they're also in a 50%-50% joint venture with the only major Pay TV provider left, FOXTEL (so that's the equivalent of Dish and DirectTV on top of the above). And their partner in FOXTEL is Rupert Murdoch's Newscorp which also happens to own 70%, yes, 70% of daily newspaper circulation in the country. But in the light of that of course, the government has finally come to its senses and done something about media ownership regulations.

...

And they actually did, but what they did was just overturning the rules to allow Newscorp to also buy more radio or FTA TV assets. Which included a recently bankrupt FTA TV network run in and owned in substantial part (essentially as much as legally allowed by regulation at the time) by a certain James Murdoch. How did it go bankrupt? Credit withheld, guess by who. Well, not entirely, it was him and a guy who also owns a affiliated regional FTA network who wanted to take over the lot.

But in the only bit of actual hilarity in this whole thing, CBS bought that FTA TV network in bankruptcy. Outbidding Newscorp. So at least things are on the up and up. They may still have a complete and total stranglehold and perverted national infrastructure in collusion with a political party they're so strongly biassed towards. But at least an eternally bankrupt (they went bankrupt in the late 80s too) TV network at a time when TV is headed for terminal decline has escaped the grasp. Yay us :|
The default Telstra plan is 25/5. That is why most have that limit.

I have FTTN and won't pay above that because at peak netflix hours my 25/5 drops to 10/1. If i go higher, I can't break 35/8
I'm angrier about this than I would normally be because I have to deal with entitled Nvidia users all the time. If Nvidia was a crappy player and I never heard about it, I wouldn't care, but Nvidia is a crappy player and many of their users act like entitled brats who fill my inbox and IRC channel. This article is as much addressed to them as it is to Nvidia.
AI is unleashed to sift through data piles for readable reports
If, at least, it could have been offensive!
Ask HN: Have you quit drinking even though you had no alcohol problem?
I enjoy drinking. I like the ritual of it, the taste, and the buzz.

At this point, I probably drink about twice a week. One day is a light day with a glass or two of wine, and then once on the weekends when I consume about a 3/4 bottle of wine.

There have been times in the past where I abstained for a couple of weeks and noticed increased clarity of mind. Now that I'm approaching 40, I'm seriously thinking of going dry to gain whatever benefits it brings.

For those of you who've quit, what was it like after?
Motorola, Nokia, and Blackberry would beg to differ...
These are what? Documents compiled by various intelligence community agencies? All of which are versed and comfortable with propaganda, misinformation, etc. On top of that, some info has (allegedly) been withheld.

So now we must ask:

1) Why now?

2) Why by Trump?

3) If this release has a political agenda (and certainly it does) then who might win from its release? Who might lose? And what current issue will be ignored while the MSM and the proles are distracted by this smoke screen?
AI Model Fundamentally Cracks Captchas, Scientists Say
If development were a monopoly out behaved similarly then they might collude to reduce housing stock from the efficient amount, but even then it's likely at a significantly higher amount of stock than there is now.

Actual developer response would depend on how much price changes with supply.
From TFA:

> When people complain to me about the lack of Nvidia support in Sway, I get really pissed off. It is not my fucking problem to support Nvidia, it’s Nvidia’s fucking problem to support me. Even Broadcom, fucking Broadcom, supports the appropriate kernel APIs. And proprietary driver users have the gall to reward Nvidia for their behavior by giving them hundreds of dollars for their GPUs, then come to me and ask me to deal with their bullshit for free. Well, fuck you, too. Nvidia users are shitty consumers and I don’t even want them in my userbase. Choose hardware that supports your software, not the other way around.

Now, contrast with [1]:

> I first heard about this from one of the developers of the hit game SimCity, who told me that there was a critical bug in his application: it used memory right after freeing it, a major no-no that happened to work OK on DOS but would not work under Windows where memory that is freed is likely to be snatched up by another running application right away. The testers on the Windows team were going through various popular applications, testing them to make sure they worked OK, but SimCity kept crashing. They reported this to the Windows developers, who disassembled SimCity, stepped through it in a debugger, found the bug, and added special code that checked if SimCity was running, and if it did, ran the memory allocator in a special mode in which you could still use memory after freeing it.

[1] https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2004/06/13/how-microsoft-lost...
Oh bullshit. New York City is the poster-child of bad housing policy. It's amazing Tokyo can fit 38 million people into its city but New York City can't find room for 1/5 of that.

You look at any major city and you'll see rent control and stabilization, restrictions on building and eviction, and a thousand other well intentioned policies that "help" the poor or "save" our "historic" neighborhoods. What a great job its doing...
> If I want to play games on Linux in the same quality/speed as on Windows, I have to use NVidia.

Not anymore. AMD/Mesa are already competitive enough, and are getting better fast. I was using Nvidia myself as well, until around the time Polaris cards came out, and Mesa was bumped to 17.x. That's when things really started to get good with AMD.

And in the overall integration sense, it's like night and day. Nvidia is never going to reach it with their blob approach. Seamless upgrades, proper framebuffer, proper KMS/DRM, no constant screen tearing, Wayland support, GALLIUM_HUD, you name it. I wouldn't go back to Nvidia now (and I do all my gaming on Linux).
Can you point me to a video of number 3?
I'm not discounting that, but use what you've got. Your vote.
They're coming for you too CVS and Walgreens.
The referenced article from 2015 is out of date - the unitary plan was updated to reflect higher density in 2016. Still nowhere near what it should be though.

I live in a 5 story complex next to downtown - it's an amazing place to be here in Auckland.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/82540876/New-Unitary-Plan-re...
>All you're really doing is creating more pointless work to treat the symptoms.

If pointless work is the best we've got that's fine by me just as long as someone's getting paid on the other end.

Besides if you're sick and know you won't be cured for quite a while you might treat the symptoms as well. Treating the symptoms isn't bad as long as we don't forget to also treat the cause.
Clojure vs. The Static Typing World
That's a doctor issue, not a pharmacy issue. Although they're probably going to need some warehouses with higher clearance levels / restricted access to do this.

I'm all for Amazon filling prescriptions, healthcare is hugely inefficient and any bargaining power Amazon can wrestle away from pharmaceutical companies probably won't negatively impact the consumer.
If humans are so afraid of strangers with needles, then why not turn our efforts to environmental tools for microbe management?
This r/askhistorians comment makes what I think is a very good rebuttal of this claim (https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/75sbk8/kenne...)

Specifically these two paragraphs:

>So there were ten people in/on the car. Each and everyone of them has significant experience with firearms, which includes WWII and/or Korea war experience for most.

>You are going to tell me that these ten guys are going to have a rifle fire right next to their ears, see the President is shot and NOT disarm the man? Not even react? Not grab your ears, because that would hurt like crazy.
> Did you read the statement you're replying to? The problem is not lack of land, but the way the land is utilised.

Yes, I did read the comment I replied to. I asked how supply would be increased, because I want to know how he would do that. Hence, why I asked him what he would propose.

You didn't answer the question either, simply restating dissatisfaction with how people live. So, what would _you_ do to increase supply instead of decreasing demand?
Wow, can't believe this is the first time I've heard of this. It actually makes a ton of sense and explains away alot of issues.
the answer of course is "less capitalism" not "more drudgery"
Author here. You know Microsoft engineers were paid 6 figure salaries to work on that, right? I have a Patreon where I make enough money to recoup half of the costs of maintaining these projects.
The tl;dr is that Australia started a fibre-to-the-premises project for the whole country (93% of premises, plus rural 7% on wireless), then a conservative government got in power and decided to deliberately destroy it. To do this, they changed it to fibre-to-the-node (DSL) instead. Instead of gigabit to the home, they're spending more money providing people with connections anywhere between 4mbps and 100 at the absolute most, with no possibility of upgrades. The cost to do this, is, of course, far more money in the long term than installing the fibre. Some people in metropolitan areas will get connected to the existing coaxial network, which is going to have huge contention problems as it's stretched far beyond what it was ever intended for.

It's the biggest trainwreck of an infrastructure project in Australia's history and will set every person and business back for decades, and the blame lies squarely with the Liberal Party.

The current head of the project has gone on record saying that Australians don't want fast internet and wouldn't use it if it was free.
By 'fit for service' they mean 12Mbps down, or average copper wire speeds. What's the point?

Although the original goal was great, in hindsight it appears that it could not be delivered anywhere near the original budget. For context, after a prolonged period of centre-right government, a centre-left government was elected, led by Kevin Rudd. He had a progressive agenda, but due to a combination of his unmitigated egotism and internal party conflicts, he instituted a variety of programs that were poorly conceived and executed, and was ultimately ousted by his own party in a fairly disasterous manner. The National Broadband network was a product of this highly disappointing and dysfunctional period of government. Since then the problems have continued across a change back to the centre-right government, who with a very slim majority have essentially stuffed around for the last few years with a lame duck leader who seems hamstrung by the ultra conservatives in his own party.

For my part, I'm dropping all wires and switching to 4G/LTE, where I can stream 4K content, get decent uploads and still pay less than I would on the National Broadband network.
> these are humans, not monsters

Humans can become monsters.

Nazism and fascism metastasize in open societies. If they have a forum, if they're allowed to congregate online or in real life, they self-radicalize.

I'm extremely pro-free-speech, often to a fault -- but that doesn't apply to actual Nazis or other people who promote hate and violence.

This is really toxic shit and can be impossible to control once it gets going.
Nordstrom Doubles Down on Discount Format Amid Retail Woes
In case of goods from China brand name and model can be useless because a lot of products are just the same thing but just with a different fly-by-night Chinese firm logo on top.

Image search could be useful if you want to find all the listings for a specific Chinese product and compare prices or revisions.
Quantum computers still too small, error-prone to be useful to most of us
My answer is self-evident. I go partway down the rabbit hole. However deep "refusing to use the self-checkout" is.
1) Because the 1992 JFK Records Act put a 25-year timer on their release. The deadline for that release was...you guessed it, October 26, 2017.

2) Because Trump is president on October 26, 2017, 25 years after the passage of the JFK Records Act.

3) Irrelevant because of the above.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_John_F._Kennedy_Assa...
Item location could be provided by a phone app today. My feeling is that they don't do it because they don't want you to know the exact location because they want you to browse the aisles in hopes that you'll throw something into your cart that you weren't planning to. Same reason that supermarkets put milk and eggs at the farthest corner away from the door.
What about the Reason Party (ex. Sex Party)?

They are broadly Libertarian but more pro-environment than the Lib-Dems.
Trump has nothing to do with this. The records were sealed and scheduled to be released today a long, long time ago. There is no political agenda.

waves hand

Move along.
They've been slated for release now for ages, long before Trump. He has little to do with it.
Dealing with Underestimation as a Woman in STEM
Just go with an RSP that is honest and provides decent bandwidth. Aussie Broadband are great and won't even let you sign up if they don't believe they have enough capacity in your area.
Answer for 1, 2, and 3: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_John_F._Kennedy_Assa... (TL;DR - On October 26, 1992, a law was passed requiring the release of the files on October 26, 2017)
Have some fun with hypothetical Relativistic impactors, it’s a blast. :)
You can add value by being a good landlord. Some people want to rent. If you provide a service great. But housing is funny as it's seen as such a safe investment and seems to be inflating too quickly.
I don't understand what you think the relevance of that is to the effect foreign buyers have on house prices.

The house market is split between people buying and renting. When people buy as an investment, it does drive up purchase prices, but unless they leave it empty rather than rent out, it drives down rental prices by increasing supply. Rental properties also tends to provide more density, as they are more likely to be occupied by sharers, and so increasing the rental supply is likely to soak up more demand than the reduction in purchase opportunities. Eventually the prices reach some degree of equilibrium, because bidding up the purchase prices much quickly becomes unprofitable as rental prices are pushed down.

Ultimately what is driving the cost up is mainly down to more people with enough money who wants to live in a given location, not investors, as if there wasn't demand to live there it'd quickly prove a bad investment.
https://www.nowtolove.co.nz/news/viral-news/hilarious-rumour...
Now we are getting to the actual discussion. Of couse, land can be rezoned, but _why_ do that? Why is it a 'better' solution to increase supply through effectively removing people from their homes instead of decreasing demand through denying purchase of homes?
What do you mean by your numbered points? These records are released because the JFK assassination records act of 1992 (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_John_F._Kennedy_As...) stated they must be released by, well, today.
So, I am not a trained long range shooter, let me just put that out there. I've only fired maybe 200-300 rounds at distances longer than 70 yards.

But it's not hard to dispute parts of your statement:

> Numerous experts have recreated the shot, and concluded the same.

Most of the experts enlisted to do this have not concluded the same. Some are now ardent believers in multiple-shooter theories.

I am aware of no test in which shooters were challenged with a fact pattern in which they were out of sight of the target 5 seconds before, had to shoot through foliage at a moving target, and used a sufficiently similar weapon.

What's the closest thing in your opinion?

> You can even try it yourself from Oswald's POV (if you can find a copy, and find old hardware to run it on) in this faithful simulation: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/JFK_Reloaded

I have played quite a bit with this simulation, and while it gives a pretty good sense of Dealy Plaza, I found three things notable about it:

1) Even after trying many, many times (probably a thousand), I was unable to recreate the Warren Commission scenario

2) The easiest way to kill anyone in the motorcade is to shoot while it's on Houston

3) The rifle is much, much different than a 6.5mm bolt action. It behaves more like an AR-15. It feels semi-automatic with very little recoil.
That's not a fair comment and you know it.

Yes, instrumentation adds overhead. The absolute numbers cannot be used to determine peak performance but that's never the intention when profiling code.

Instrumentation rarely modifies the execution profile to the point that the numbers are 'worthless' or 'random'. My rule of thumb is that self times near the leaves of the callgraph are more accurate than self times further up the graph but having some indication of timing is important.

Furthermore with something like the call chart in AS3 you are often looking for outliers that you can't see when looking at an aggregated view of the profile. A function that has an average of 1000us might be running alternately at 500us and 1500us and you want to see that. It may indicate an unknown performance bottleneck, maybe a call to OpenGL is causing a GPU sync for some reason. It's rare that the instrumentation overhead would dominate major effects like that. Having a number available is important for this as you may be comparing invocations/looking at different parts of the graph at different zoom levels etc. Having a number available is the only solution.

Furthermore, where do you think the instrumented profiler is getting numbers from in the aggregated views? Answer: exactly the same place that the callchart gets it's numbers from. In essence you are saying all instrumented profilers are inaccurate and reporting bogus numbers, demonstrably untrue.
>> Personally, I want to see up-to-date retail stock mapping (that I can search)

If you search an item in the Walmart mobile app, it will tell you the aisle that the item is in, in the store you are in (there is an automatically-entered "store mode" that is driven by location detection.)

They have all the data across 5,000 stores and >100,000 SKUs. The robot helps ensure that customers haven't moved items from where they are supposed to be.
>Emotional logic and snap-decision making is kind of a staple in NZ. For example, it's illegal to grow an avocado tree.

Oh goodness, have you been suckered into the 'illegal gardening' joke?

>A man set himself on fire to protest the horrible family court system

That man's wife had left him and taken their kid to Japan. I'm not sure what kind of non-horrible family court system you imagine NZ could have, which would be able to direct outcomes in the Japanese system.
If I can find some time, I will do. One thing I thought of was to be able to log the extraction process for bottling milk - that was something that was rather frustrating IIRC.

Cheers!
bookmarked. Excited to see it, need somewhere to move my portfolio now that google finance is killing that feature.
This depends on your ADSL2+ line. I'm paying for "up to 24mbit" but the line length means I get 3.

The rest of my street is now on HFC NBN but my house is an outlier, still waiting on additional work. Been waiting since May, I suspect it'll take until the next May.

With 3 people in the house, going from 3 mbit to 25 or 50 will make a pretty huge difference to us. Probably about as much as when we first jumped from 56k to 256k ADSL 15 years ago.
Where do old programmers go?
It really is on par with saying something like hard drives should never get bigger because we dont use the space.

The capabilities need the infrastructure in place first so that they can grow to use them, it's impossible for the other way around to occur as you cannot transfer something that requires faster connections before they exist.
They missed a perfect opportunity to give it legs and have it clomp around the aisles muttering "gonk... gonk..."