skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Universities are definitely trying to cash in on the revenue generating potential of researchers. There are number of universities that have recently changed their stance on intellectual property rights so that the inventors retain most of the ownership and profits of their invention. This is to try and jumpstart innovation, as previously inventors at universities were reluctant to disclose due to getting very little out of it.
`let` vs. `const` and the Mental Mass of Functions
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Why in the world would they do that? Can't they just launch a normal browser window or something? Downloading 500MB of chrome bloat just to display a login window seems ludicrous.
Wow! A race to the bottom of the memory pool.

Electron is several things which HN guidelines probably won't allow me to describe here. I avoid it whenever I can.
Author here, thanks for posting. The project is still very early in the development and there is a lot of work to be done to make it ready for daily use.

I would appreciate any feedback. What are the less known features of existing shells you really like? What things would you change about existing shells if you could?
The thing is, as gilleain says, the majority of promising-sounding candidates aren't worth progressing with. This is a combination of:

* Failing outright to do anything even close to the requested task

* Not even basic error handling

* No tests

* Using generated code where it's not appropriate, or not bothering to implement e.g. catch blocks they've generated

The instructions explicitly tell candidates what we're looking for, so it's not worth chatting to someone without doing this filter.
Hmmm... this story is about a PhD student.

There's an argument that you should be paid a salary to receive an education. However I think it would also apply to undergraduate degrees (and indeed in the UK students used to receive grants).

PhDs in the UK are often funded, the student receives a stipend to cover their living costs. But it's mostly assumed that the work you do is a form of education/training in how to do original research and that your education is the compensation.
I ask myself: is there a limit for a drawdown without return in bitcoins? - as in, if the value goes under a certain threshold, it's not profitable any more to "mine it up" again and the blockchain falls dry... or could they just lower the difficulty of mining in order to prevent that?
Did you actual read the differences, which are bigger than than simply a number. In one case, the number is backed up by evidence which is provided by the campaign. Politifact can then verify that the number isn't just made up or based on nothing. It's mostly true if you understand the context.

As for Trump, they didn't provide anything to back up the statements. They had to dig to find where he got the information, and nothing they found backs up what he said.

Now, you can argue the sources and the meaning, and that's the problem with statistics. But there is a difference between the two, more than just 8 percentage points.
The hacker Stoll was tracking, Markus Hess, was affiliated with other hackers that went on to found Chaos Computer Club.

One of the people he was working alongside, Karl Koch, was selling military information to the KGB in exchange for cocaine. He developed some form of paranoid psychosis and seemed to believe he was fighting the Illuminati.

There was a German film made about this called "23" (Koch was obsessed with the cult classic conspiracy fiction novel Illuminatus, and used the pseudonym "hagbard" after a character in the book).

He was found burned to death in woodland; it was ruled suicide.
In my opinion, it's not reproducible. The stuff in Nature is no-where near enough to reproduce it. They won't give out their trained networks, so we can check how they perform. We have to dig around for scraps of games AlphaGo has played.

As to why it got published? I don't think it should have been.
By that logic, gold would have crashed long ago and been replaced by all the other alt-rare-metals out there. It has not.

The network effect should not be underestimated. The world is filled with examples of inferior systems that exist simply because they have more momentum than others. Investors demand a “store of value” investment vehicle. Up until now, gold has led that role. Now Bitcoin will take over. Not because it is the best, but because it is first to market and has enough momentum and utility to replace it.
> Are there really places in the world where total strangers strike up conversations and form friendships with people on the street, on the bus, etc?

I know several people who have formed "commuting friendships" when they've been on the same train day in, day out which then turned into "real friendships" distinct from the commute.

(Personally I would never strike up a conversation but crippling social anxiety is a bugger like that.)
As much as I despise all "news" organizations, I say good.

Considering that most of the media has been fawning over musk and spacex and everything musk does, perhaps some criticism of musk is required in a free and democratic system.

I just don't like how so much of media are pretty much colluding with each other to spread the same narrative. On almost all topics, it seems like most of the media is pushing a particular narrative.

I wish we had a media environment where about a third is pro-musk, a third is anti-musk and a third is neutral.

The same with trump/obama/clinton, politics, technology, business, globalization, economics, international relations, etc.

All we seem to get is cheerleading by the media for one particular agenda.

I'm a believer in diversity and I think we need diversity in the media.

And I don't believe in saints. Musk has done a lot of good things, but he isn't a saint. He has done plenty of things that can be criticized. How most of his business lives off government subsidies. How much in bed he is with wall street. How he really hasn't invented or created anything new. Most of his proclamations and "inventions" are decades old technologies. None of his grandiose proposals have born fruit yet.

If all the media seems to do is praise or criticize, then I know something is wrong.

Edit: Wow, that was a swift and quick number of downvotes. I know that pay to play is a big thing in news ( both arstechnica and brietbart and everyone else does ). But I wonder if musk has pr firms working the social media scene?
The best jobs I have ever had spent less than 2 hours total in on-site interviews. The worst companies that I never heard from again burned a whole day running me through the gauntlet.
There is also sense2vec which I think tries to do something similar. https://explosion.ai/blog/sense2vec-with-spacy
Also relevant: Pict [0], a π-calculus programming language.

[0]: http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/papers/pict/Html/Pict.htm...
> where's Peter Thiel in all this?

The evidence seems to suggest Thiel has gotten in with the "throne and altar" crowd, the Neo-Reactionaries and self-described "Dark Enlightenment".

https://thebaffler.com/latest/the-moldbug-variations-pein

How that intersects with his techy leanings, I don't really know, it's very possible that he's being thrown overboard as you describe.
> Bitcoin isn't Fiat currency.
> Bitcoin Cash doubles the number of coins in an instant, and future updates could do more, and the market value of each coin increases rather than halving.

Choose one.
I'm not saying I agree with them, but a common theme I hear from the alt-right is "no gods no masters" (Game of Thrones reference, ding on the pop-culture). Now, nevermind that these guys are setting up as many gatekeeping functions as they tear down; they simply justify it as "protecting real hard-working Americans" through xenophobia.

It's all built on the false nationalism of a flagging superpower, and if any of these people traveled in the least they would see that other countries are actually doing a lot of things better than we do here. We got arrogant, our politicians got greedy, and our voter base got complacent. It's only going to get worse too.
ULA isn’t the only entity hurt by cheap launches.
It's indeed not a happy thing to see Ars publishing this. In the old days of Jon Stokes CPU articles what AMD did would get never ending streams of articles.

Considering what AMD went through, I indulge in a bit of AMD fanboyism at times, I try to avoid it. Some articles compare the latest Intel releases with AMD, and they often end up saying "ok Intel still has a 10% perf lead in half the tests, but .. twice the price". Am I the only one to consider what AMD did a miracle ? is it Intel friend network turning this into a "meh" ?
Gold make sense because girls like to wear gold on their fingers, in their ears... Copper is not useful for that purpose.
It actually is different. ULA gets $880 million to $1 billion per year just to keep the factory lights on[1] for the EELV Launch Capability Contract. This isn't money for a service such as launches or new rockets, it is just to keep the lights on. SpaceX doesn't get any of that. If anyone is subsidized by the USG, it is overwhelmingly ULA. SpaceX could have simply charged 1/2 of ULA's $422 million per launch and instead chose to go way below that. This is an example of private enterprise overwhelmingly helping the tax payers through healthy competition. ULA was allowed to essentially rip off the tax payers at $422 million per launch whereas SpaceX is charging < $100 million per launch depending on mission objectives and integration requirements.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Launch_Alliance#Controv...

[2] https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/06/air-force-budget-rev...
I'm calling total BS on this article. Graphics chip sales will continue to grow. These people are crazy.
Don't forget about time value of money! That $230 you'll earn 8 years from now is worth less than $200 today if you account for 2% inflation. (And in reality, you tend to get much better returns)
AMD finally turned a profit this quarter!

Plus, though slow consoles and crypto will hurt a little, that's really only their existing business. Their future is in their new and competitive product lineup from this year. Epyc particularly should be very good for AMD if it can gain momentum: expensive server CPUs that AMD can manufacture cost-efficiently, and which are competitive with or straightforwardly better than Intel in certain use-cases.

(full disclosure: I indirectly own AMD stock because I expect next year will be better.)
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36% of households rent, and rent has been increasing in most places. What happens when there's a big job-killing recession?
What are you talking about eating their corn. Do you have an idea why they are "poaching or attracting talent"?

1) their are no conflicts of interest in relation to IP.
2) it's cheaper. Companies that give money for grants are bombarded with overhead costs where a large percentage of funds go nowhere near the intended project the grant was given for.(I forget the name and it varies by school)
3) Kids are payed better( non slave wages)
4) Professors get to work with large amounts of data

What usually happens is that do their time,work with the data they always dreamed of, realize what they are doing, are happy or not happy get bored /pissed off,come back and teach.

The entire academia system in the United States is so fucked behind belief, I really have no sympathy having been their myself.
Also: You can (for free) remove the 30day trial restriction as a developer: https://www.skuid.com/developer-trial/
I wonder if it's just Bezos stirring the pot with the hopes of a favorable outcome for Blue Origin...
> These days I just point the company to my github and am explicit that if that isn't enough to grant me a face to face I probably don't want to work there.

I'd be happy with that if the projects looked they were yours. I can count on one hand the number of candidates who have had GH profiles, and even fewer with anything worth looking at. All I really want to see is a few examples of coding style and basic thinking.

To me, being an engaged participant in the open source community is a massively positive signal, even if it's just reporting issues and the very occasional PR.
I used to use this and Identifont all the time when I worked in a print shop.

You wouldn't believe how many people would bring in a crap-quality printed copy of something and say "I want my invite/card/printout to look EXACTLY like this one". WhatTheFont saved the day many a time.
HN and craigslist have amazing UX and are very well designed.
> Presumably any process that can use the heat directly

Maybe build a massive seawater pipeline and create desalination plants that can then be redirected to California/Nevada
It does have a firewall. The configuration is static: no incoming connections.

You might be thinking about not being able to have an antivirus? In which case, that is certainly a feature - not a bug. Allowing the privileges required to enable an AV to operate on iOS would severely degrade the security of your device. The losses would massively outweigh any potential benefits of having an AV.
>As others have pointed out, they don't even pay the PhD students directly at all - because they're students and are paying the university!

Most PhD students in Computer Science are not paying the University, the University is paying the students.

The pay is low but the opportunities for growth are high if you work with good people at the right time. Think of it like a startup where instead of paying workers in equity they are paid in terms of professional development. Like a startup, this form of compensation is sometimes not always worth anything, but can also be worth far more than a salary. It is a high risk venture and should be assessed as such.
> Why try to reinvent bash?

> ...

> It treats everything as text while we mostly need to manipulate structured information.

Looking at the examples given, it's more like Powershell, but with better compatibility with existing Unix text-based tools. Which is awesome.
That will probably come down to how well your defense is against Google's lawyers.

Now, I'm not a lawyer but I have read and been involved in my fair share of contracts. My understanding is that you might not be able to claim negligence that you were unaware or you were not sure. They might ask you to take down the entire database if you have not proof which data is from which API.
Libelous doesn't matter; the CFAA only cares if you accessed a protected computer and obtained information or caused damage. And getting the password from the account owner may not matter either since the protected machine belongs to Facebook - Facebook v. Power Ventures held that user account access isn't enough.

I agree that a suit or damages would be unlikely, but that's only at the discretion of judges; the basic CFAA violation here is unambiguous.
Startup time and crashes seem to be a problem on mine. I compiled my own vscode though so that might have something to do with it.

Still use it exclusively as my C++ IDE with the help of clangd. Would love a native easy to use editor with good support for LSP and vscode's debug protocol. Bonus points if it works in the command line.
> they won hard technical and market praises.

But their pricing is on par with intel's offerings, so why should I buy the AMD product? For almost my use cases extra cores aren't helping. Outside of some edge stuff at work, the same applies at work.

When I saw AMD's pricing it more or less justified my decision not to buy their stock. I don't think this article is negative. Its just, from an investor's perspective, AMD stock isn't very attractive. I have no idea if a major price cut would help with this, but I think they need to be more competitive with intel in regards to pricing. None of offerings, per core, really beat my 2011 2500k i5. Why wouldn't I just replace it with the newest i5 or i7?

This is just a market correction from ryzen/zen hype. AMD's stock rose way too fast for their actual market offerings. Congrats to those who rode this wave and sold at the right time, but now we're starting to see some sanity here.

Also the article is little more than blogspam of another article that gives a simple summary of the Morgan Stanley report.

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/10/30/amd-shares-crater-after-morg...

The Morgan Stanley report's summary isn't rosy for AMD:

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Moore lowered his price target for AMD shares to $8 from $11, representing 32 percent downside from Friday's close.

The analyst predicts cryptocurrency mining driven sales for AMD's graphics chips will decline by 50 percent next year or a $250 million decline in revenue. He also forecasts video game console demand will decline by 5.5 percent in 2018.

"We expect cryptocurrency to gradually fade from here, consoles to decline, and graphics to be flattish," he wrote. "To be clear, we admire what the company has accomplished on a fraction of its competitors' budgets in both microprocessors and graphics - our cautious view is based entirely on the current stock price, and the limited potential for upside in 2018 and beyond."

---

Also from a market facts perspective:

AMD today: $10.92

AMD a week ago: $14.25

>That report is so negatively biased it's suspicious.

Well, no one is buying the stock for x reasons so the price is falling. How is that not factual?

Moore might be right that $8 is AMD's rational market price considering their current offerings and sales projections. I don't see how anyone can look at AMD's stock performance in the past month and decide that it isn't destined for a downward slope until it hits a new floor.

This is not a pretty picture for a company that just released its latest and highly anticipated offerings, after years of delays and promises, a few months ago:

https://imgur.com/a/uNn1s

edit: oh well, downvotes from fanboys who will be offended at anything but "AMD IS AMAZEBALLS"
Bad as it would have made his plays worse as he directly copied various things from other writers.

Remember, he could copy content from others, but needed enough originality to keep an audience interested. Net result plenty of stuff lifted then improved resulting in evolutionary improvements we lost with copy-write.
Yes, there will be only 21 million bitcoins.

Oops, fork! Now there will be 42 million.

Another fork! Now the maximum is 63 million. There's no such thing as scarcity for a virtual currency.
"Please learn to understand double-speak. If the FBI says they are having a hard time cracking smart-phones or some kind of encryption, understand that they actually want you to use that security because they have figured out how to get around it."

Do you have any evidence, or is this just speculation? I can buy that governments have access to zero-day exploits; I don't buy that every form of encryption they complain about has been secretly been broken.
There's even a tool for it: https://wiki.skullsecurity.org/index.php?title=Dnsxss
Awesome reply!

The beginning of your comment is still talking about the writing system. If you are a kid learning to speak (or in the rarer case that you never learn the writing system of the language) then you don't notice that the orthography is inconsistent. Furthermore, if you are a literate native speaker of a language whose orthography is very inconsistent to begin with, due to an extreme liberal use of loan words, introduced at different times, and pronunciation shifts (I'd say English is a good example), where technically knowing the origin of a word (and when English borrowed it) can help you match its spelling to its pronunciation, you still feel like you're only speaking and writing one language. I'd say an even a stronger example is writing systems that aren't phonetic at all, where no matter what you do you can't figure out the pronunciation from the orthography alone.

Your point about language nerds making up rules about how load words should behave is interesting and true I'd say in most modern languages whose societies contain... academics. That's why you "can't" split infinitives in English, end sentences with prepositions, or say "pendulums" and "octopuses". Unlike German, English doesn't have gendered nouns (pronouns excluded), but still people will try. See "alumnus". The argument about "Zucchini" might exist literally in English, but an analogous one for "Cannoli" certainly exists.

So I'd say your statements about German apply just as equally in English, and so perhaps other people can chime in whether they actually feel like they're speaking a "mixed" language, and at what point they felt like that. In a way, inevitably, almost all modern languages are "mixed".

I think you'll find with all your examples that there is contention. Aren't there German speakers who say "Pommes Frites" the German way and to hell with who ever says that's technically not correct? In the cases that it's not exactly contentious, there's still a funny feeling. Why do people want to say "Computer mouses" so much, even though they utter it and think afterwards "wait, computer mice??". When you take a suppletive form (irregular form) and put it in another context, it s up for debate (academic and probably inside your brain) what you do with it. Not exactly the same as what happens with loan words, but this demonstrates that when you look at language, you'll arrive at multiple answers for how things "should" be, and which one you actually say depends on some decision, by language nerds, or by youself consciously or unconsciously. Language rules are anything but simple!!
For what sort of applications is it super over-priced? I'm using the realtime database to build out an app, and if I start scaling my current (beta) usage by 1000x, I'm still only getting monthly bills of $100 or so.

Fear based question: are there applications (hopefully mine) that would scale in an economic way? And there are other use-cases that wouldn't scale?
Gold is also truly fungible, and has maintained some value for thousands of years.
Try VPN?
No clue at all what money is, or about.

Yet another 'money is a commodity' view that just doesn't fit reality.

Money is a representation of credit. That's actually what we use it for.

https://medium.com/modern-money-matters/crypto-shilling-8799...
> "no gods no masters" (Game of Thrones reference, ding on the pop-culture)

that's not a game of thrones reference as far as I can tell. It's an old anarchist and socialist slogan. It'd be an odd fit for that part of the right. "No gods or kings, only man" is a Bioshock reference that pops up sometimes in those parts.
Why would you want to "praise" a company. Publicly traded companies operate for financial gain. If you feel a company is supporting your interests you might want to consider buy their products.

Make sure it's known that you're buying their product because they support your interests. They will hopefully see that it's good business to continue doing so.

That's a much more robust way to get the products (and ecosystem) that you want than by praising them.
EDIT: The article does break down the purpose of Section 1615, and shed light on its context - I did not see that the article continued beyond the massive picture below the blurb that I quoted.
I had a core i7 gen 2 Bloomfield? Asus motherboard that was solid and still is. In Jan/Feb I got a Asus Strix board for a Kaby Lake i7 and it’s already giving me issues. The onboard Bluetooth chip stops working randomly and other weird things are happening.
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YMMV I suppose, but I’ve never noticed the startup times, and I frequently create/close windows (I often have 2-3 at a time).
https://www.reddit.com/r/identifythisfont works fairly well.
Those all provide space for ads. Does Firebase have a roadmap for providing advertising space?