skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was amazed, even then, about how advanced the story telling was.

They had one scene in the time traveling season, where Cable said something along the lines of: "It's just like the nuclear disarmament of the 21st century, every country kept one."

Game theory in a kids show? Awesome.
A compiler pass to optimize arrow functions for React
If there are ten employees you need to cut, shouldn't they be cut based on either their recent performance

No, because layoffs are position-based. If it's a performance related cull then that's not the same as redundancies. If you want to get rid of people like that then you need ironclad documentation and/or to provide generous packages.
Of the broken arrow incidents I'm aware of this was one of the least dangerous in terms of detonation threat.

> Its difficult enough for a super power to safely store and control its WMD.

There has never been an accidental detonation of a nuclear device. The problem this article describes was one in rocketry, insulation, and adherence to protocols.

Nuclear non-proliferation is important, but this article is not the reason why. The reason non-proliferation is important is because of the ramifications of using the devices, not challenges in storing them.
I work for an importer that provides them their wine and am semi-familiar with their distribution setup. Many online retails tackle the issue in different ways but wine.com has setup "stores" in a number of states which they ship the wine to and then those "stores" then ship to the customers. So on paper the customer is buying within the state basically even though all they did was buy online.. Also one thing to note is wineries can ship to more states than retailers can, so wine.com setup a winery licences in texas specifically so they can ship to more states under that licence.

Other online retailers (Californian) put in their shipping terms that the customer agrees to be buying the wine in califonia (even though they're shipping out of state).
> His job was to go into the transformer room once per day and make sure the green light was still blinking. (Kidding, not sure what the arrangement was :)

Ah, but did he have a dog whose job was to bite him if he tried to touch any buttons?
>>his critics should rationally and clearly critique his actual policies and actions.

I agree in sentiment, but that isn't really how it works anymore (maybe it never did?). It's just a never-ending barrage of soundbites and 'outrages' because that's what moves joe public.
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There was a discussion about GPUs under the first article of the series, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14712146 In terms of building a SaaS, CPUs seem more reliable
> Obviously you can't do that

Actually, you can. I know a few people in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and upstate New York who use coal stoves to heat their homes.
I'm sure the homeless folks will appreciate that.
Machine Learning in general. Not just the NN flavour du jour, but the area in the large.
I've always liked Prozd's 30-second videos on the subject of MCU.

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zPEtyAsM94
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaNWFHLy2NI

Iron Man was definitely fresh and new when it came out. But a lot of MCU movies have been more of the same. A lot of villains are simply evil counter-parts to the hero (the exceptions are basically Thor / Loki... Guardians of the Galaxy, and Spiderman).

I still enjoy MCU movies, and have watched most of them. But the formula is becoming stale and old for sure.
> For a generation of kids like me the definitive story of X-Men wasn't the comics or the movies, it was this TV show

I can still hum the theme song.
This is true for the effect of the worker commuting on himself but the company does not have to pay any cost premium for the effect of the worker commuting on other people (and neither does the worker). That part (more traffic) is the externality.
Maybe this will spur Trump to create his own Twitter-like stream on Whitehouse.gov. That would be better for politicians, a separate political stream for them, that Twitter can API into.
I used PCL-CVS for many years. Never ever had any trouble with it.
Hi! Definitely send your resume and cover letter along and we'll take a look.
comcomm?
Potato chips have some intrinsic utility. Coins (digital or otherwise) generally do not.

I think this is what makes 'breaking up potato chips' into a million pieces to solve hunger seem ridiculous. Where-as splitting a coin into values seems natural. To me at least.
Where are these proofs? Where are the definitions? There's barely even pseudocode describing the algorithm. Honest question: have you read cryptography research papers before?
WebAssembly and decentralization are big ideas. Things are moving very rapidly there are probably 100 right answers to this question.
Whatever your political views, the ellipses in the quote are deeply misleading, and in fact make his quote seem to say something Joel emphatically did not say.

Here is the full quote:

>It’s impossible not to see the parallel: the only way to build a successful world today is to allow the contributions of everyone. Carving up the world into us vs. them, building walls, and demonizing religions, nations, and refugees is both morally repugnant and counterproductive, and it goes so much against the spirit of Stack Overflow that as a community we must speak out.
Ah, but the total efficiency of getting and consuming calories is quite poor. Unless you eat coal, in which case it's probably other problems that are primary.
Documentation... Oh, my sides!
Notebooks a la Jupyter do have all the qualities described in the article in graphical form. In fact any programmable system that allows combining multimedia objects could be shaped as a graphical CLI.

That kind of system would have been very hard to make with object oriented programming. But thanks to the recent advances in programming languages supporting asynchronism and composability, we'll see more of them.
Ask HN: Which programmer do you look up to?
Which programmer do you look up to? And why?

Were they a mentor? Someone you didn't even meet, but were inspired by?

What did you learn from them that you can share with us?
Also, from:

https://www.firebirdsql.org/en/features/

[

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The mix of high performance, small footprint, supreme scalability, silent and simple installation and 100% royalty-free deployment make Firebird a highly attractive choice for all types of software developers and vendors.

It is used by approximately 1 million of software developers worldwide.

]
Yes, that's it. https://brandyourself.com/ offers some free help in avoiding negative search results, also in promoting positive results.
Ask HN: Who's working on open source and needs help?
Are you working on an open source project and need contributors to help with UI, documentation, etc. ?

Please use this format:

Project URL:
Project description:
Contact info:
Help needed with:
O once had a little freelance gig for a company that did offer computing resources to one part of their customers and heat for houses and water to the other with just that concept. cloud & heat
Why HBase is crucial to your Hadoop cluster
What isn't and is politicized is not a logical deduction, nor is it rational. Its emotional.

>If you consider broadband a basic need (I do) then it makes sense

I don't think having such a simple gating mechanism for prescribing government policy makes much sense. I also consider food to be a basic need, but I don't want a government cheeseburger.

Like I said, I'm all for the public owning the last mile and then the private players compete.
It's only missing a blockchain play.
Cool!

> From my background, "driver" always implied kernel-mode, unless specifically specified.

Right, so it seems correct to say that you cannot load a driver using just a custom root certificate. You need it trusted by a root certificate from Microsoft, which (assuming that is correct) means much of this thread is wrong.
Not a good culture fit.
Indeed I'm not a fan of "blockchain" as a buzzword at all (especially now that people are trying to apply it to things that shouldn't be distributed); but clearly there are many things that do benefit from distribution.

Things that come to mind are Namecoin, I2P, IPFS, and other tech on the pipeline that can bring the internet closer to it's original ideal of distributivity, each person responsible for their content, etc.

Those are also free software ideals: while great strides have been made in open sourcing user-side software, (mainstream android, Linux on servers, etc), the internet just hides a massive closed system: before you could at least inspect how things work through reverse engineering, but querying web servers is literally a black box model. The problem that not everyone wants to run their own server or even deal with renting out can largely vanish from certain applications. We've started with the easiest ones, which were file sharing (reputation-free), then Bitcoin, with more basic web tasks incoming.

It's important to keep in mind most of those are fit for low-efficiency. Unless we have a breakthrough with Fully Homomorphic encryption, the bulk of computing itself will be centralized (or you will have to accept a mix of high cost or unreliability).
So wine.com?
> And, currently, a handful of [governments] having them is the best way to ensure that.

Until it isn't. But then it's too late to try anything different.

> If all [governments] claim to destroy their nuclear bombs and never ever make a new one, would you trust all of them?

I don't trust statements from governments, as a general rule.
I wouldn't go so far as to say it's a secret weapon, but they have added a HUGE amount of services in a very short amount of time relative to the other player.

I still don't like though.
> have to accept that those who need rigid, inflexible computing to protect them far outnumber us. People don’t care if they can rewrite Notepad or read its source code, they care that Facebook works and that they don’t get viruses or added to a botnet

And yet the epsilon between "Facebook" and "malware" continues to shrink. I'd personally rather have my phone ownt by an impersonal botnet that's just going to send out some "growth hacking" spam or look for bank passwords, than a person-targetting adversarial application that is designed for the purpose of creating a long term surveillance profile on me. But of course everyone is free to choose their own kinks!

What we have to accept is that "people" actually have no fucking clue what they want. Advertising tells them, and social proof reinforces it. What the Free Software Foundation doesn't "get" is money, as in enough money to carpet bomb their own popularity into public consciousness. While promoting end-user freedom creates massive economic wealth, capturing that wealth predictably is inherently impossible.

Having said that, the surveillance industrial complex will certainly continue catering to this mythical "average user", as they gain when people self-identify into this group and thus resign themselves to sharecropping. But it's foolish to buy into their disempowering least-common-denominator-database-row uniformity paradigm, any more than we need to pretend to do so to eat. The only reason the Free world actually needs to care about the next generation of GoogAppAzon middlemanning is that economics force us to piggyback onto their hardware.
Wow! I completely forgot about Ronin Warriors. I need to find and rewatch them—I hope they're available somewhere. I had those action figures as well. They were great.

Which Exo figures did/do you have? (I had Lt. Marsh, Wolf, Marsala, and Phaeton or Typhonus (can't recall which).
Earning $430 for month by bitcoin mining. What about the electricity costs?

If you factor in electricity costs and the money they spent on infrastructure(GPU's and high-end machines), it is a dumb idea. They could have spent $30-50 on heating equipment instead.
> But more importantly, it's time to stop giving developers the impression they aren't building a "real application" if they don't have an extremely complicated router library and a whole bunch of thunks and reducers.

A thousand times, this. I am working on Redux-enabled app that answers "no" to all 5 of the questions to consider when trying to decide "do I have to put all of my state in Redux?" [0]

IMO it's now all so much more complicated than it needs to be. Admittedly this is my first exposure to Redux, but rather than "you might not need Redux" I'm leaning towards "you almost definitely don't need Redux"

[0] http://redux.js.org/docs/faq/OrganizingState.html
It was probably fine; microwaves are fairly easily blocked by even a very thin metal screening. The main health issue with microwaves is the heating caused by it.

The eyes are usually what is damaged first because they tick all 3 boxes of:

* Easily damaged by heat

* High water content

* No good way of shedding heat

Testicles hit the last two, and the degree to which the first is true is debated.
4th National climate assessment, vol 1 [pdf]
A Speed Gun for Photosynthesis
On MacOS Sierra, I have moved it to a separate folder and it still tells me to move it to a folder outside of ~/Downloads and there is literally no option to do anything but quit.
Our plan of putting ethernet ports on lamp posts will disrupt homelessness!
> and store that heat somewhere (like an underground tank of water) until you need to warm your house at night.

Just install a solar water system if you want to heat your house, it'll be more efficient at generating heat than solar panels.

> This technique could pair nicely with another problem we have- storing solar power.

Actually the ability to quickly turn on and off mining operations has other more practical uses for excess energy. Right now there are situations during the day where utilities have to idle base-load plants because renewable energies produce enough to satisfy grid demand, or they even have to pay another utility to take their excess power in case they can't quickly throttle their base load (e.g. with Nuclear).

Having a large crypto currency mining pool the utility could use during these times would enable them to use the excess energy and generate a profit from it, instead of paying another utility to take their excess energy.
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parent was concerned about

> risking nuclear contamination.

not a nuclear explosion. A conventional boom could spread radioactive materials all over.
> "- Hydrogen evolution by water electrolysis during charging -- a potential hazard, and one of the main loss paths driving the low efficiency"

On that point...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZ8IcoHjFdk

Also, it's worth noting that this is a research project. Test cells have been produced, but experiments are ongoing, so the final design is not set in stone.
There's only so many hyper-wealthy people living close to cities. They already have jobs or have enough money that they don't need jobs. I don't think it's going to be feasible for any company to staff themselves with only hyper-wealthy people.
I think BroadmmmQual has a nice ring to it (and far less misogynistic than the reverse)
This is silly, CPUs are 100% efficient at converting electrical energy into heat. Where do you think that 'ancillary energy' is going?

Obviously heat pumps are more efficient - that's kinda beside the point though.

The main point here is you can take anywhere you had a resistive heating element and replace it with a mining chip, and you're now doing something useful with that energy you were turning into heat anyway.

Yes heat pumps are more efficient but there are plenty of places in your house you have plain old heat elements that aren't going away (water heater).
What always happens: $$$

Lots of growth occurred at Qualcomm since then. I'm assuming most of the leadership changed as the company became more and more profitable.
With a whole bunch of Star trek voice acting!
I'd be shocked if they weren't already thinking of ways to tie this into other service offerings they can be a middle-man marketplace for.
What in the actual fuck?
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Hey FooBarWidget! :D

I was not speaking in terms of formal correctness in terms of the definition of reproducible builds, I was speaking of practical implementation for a production deployment. All of the issues you mentioned are (at least temporarily) resolvable by keeping a mirror of the builds so that you can reproduce the production environment without rebuilding if it goes away.

I'm just defending the (apparently ops) person who was going by the original dictionary definition of "reproducible" which predates the "reproducible builds" definition of reproducible.

If my manager asks me to make sure that my environment is reproducible, I assure you she is not talking about the formal definition that is being used here. I'm not saying that one shouldn't care about these things, but I am saying that many won't care about them.

If you're doing a new build and the build results in upgrading to a newer version of a package, then that is a new build. It won't match. If you're doing a rebuild as an exercise to see if the output matches the previous build, then you're concerned about different things than the ops person will be.

If my production instances are deleted by mistake, I'll be redeploying from the backup images, I won't be rebuilding my sources from scratch unless the backups also failed.

I agree that it is a sort of problem that people usually don't build from scratch, it's just not one of the kinds of problems that my manager will ever be likely to ask me to solve.
The Dolan Twins have already hacked the iPhone X
That admin UI is the slickest in the biz tho
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My thousand mile view is simply that they entered some really cutthroat markets, e.g. the low end mobile chip market, and adapted.
How does hacker news work?
How do they choose what articles to show? Is it a manual process where they keep surfing the web for recent news?
For theory, check out http://slides.com/jamesgibson-4/deck#/. For practice, check out https://testdriven.io/.
Well, that is taught here since 2007 or so. Most start-up guys are just young and simply don't know. I guess you need to experience that first.
ehhh...maybe our definitions of serious usage are different, but even then their EA based discount model is dumb. At our peak on azure we we're doing about $120k/month, but didn't bother committing to more than $200k/yr because the discounts just weren't awesome. last time I looked the discounts on more modern VM types were WAY worse than what we used to get on older generations. Also, once you are on EA billing all the decent billing/usage tools in the azure portal stop working (they aren't that great anyway) and you basically have to buy or roll your own.
Can you just store the hydrogen? Or is it just so inefficient as to be useless?

Seems like batteries to cover 95%+ of your use case then having hydrogen backup for for covering rare weather conditions might work well for off grid setups.
Clean energy revolution tipping point is inevitable–but the sooner, the better
Sorry for being off-topic but I an appalled by how this website looks. I cannot make myself endure reading because there is so much clutter, bad contrast and a feeling like if I am looking through blinds. There is no perceptual difference between header, footer and content. Smaller text, some contrast for the empty background on the sites and less vertical squeeze would really help. Like this, I have 2 sentences and 2 half-visible code snippets visible at any time which is just unsettling and stressful.

https://i.imgur.com/tLKISm4.png
I would still insist on a Marx quote where he draws the distinction. Not a late 20th century interpretation with benefit of hindsight.
With all that human effort and market efficiency, why isn't Amazon getting shorted like crazy, based on ratio trends like this...?

https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=232505
I've always wondered why every application doesn't just have a shell console hanging off the bottom of the window, the way browsers do.

We've already had a half-assed version for decades, part of nearly every GUI ever (though they're falling out of fashion these days): "status bars." And most OSes also already have a "scripting" mechanism that requires applications to expose a specific "scriptable API" (WSScript requiring ActiveX components on Windows, Automator requiring Apple Events on macOS.)

So just combine the two! The OS could have a "status-bar control" that you'd stick onto your main window of your app, which would start as a regular status bar, but have a little disclosure arrow—that would turn it into a full historical log of every previous "status", plus a REPL for entering script (probably with a dropdown to select which of the OS's available "scriptable languages" you're writing in.)

If you don't want to muck up your GUI, you could simply detect whether your GUI app has been launched from an interactive terminal (i.e. whether stdin is a PTY) and then provide a regular REPL-like interface on the terminal. A lot of GUI apps already log to stdout in the expectation that developers will be running them from the terminal; why not just add some more interactivity the same way?

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I should also mention a third, much less obvious route: Plan9's Acme editor, which isn't so much a "GUI editor" in the normal sense as it is a text buffer with a configurable space of API commands hanging off of it.

In Acme, the menu system (and its associated keyboard accelerators) are effectively just another text file that you can tab into and edit. Each thing you write into the menu is just a literal API call. Hitting that menu item will then call that API, passing the selection or the current buffer as necessary. [It's actually even more universal—in Acme, left-click selects and middle-click activates. You can write a command anywhere and then middle-click it. The menu just provides a convenient holding place for middle-click-able text.]

Acme has its own internal commands—sort of like Windows PowerShell—but it also allows you to just write regular shell commands into the menu as well. Activating a `wc -l` menu-command will literally just dump the output of `wc -l` into the status bar. Activating `tr A-Z a-z` will literally just tr(1) your selection/buffer into lowercase. Etc.

And I fudged a bit: the commands that are "internal" to Acme are just shell commands too. Since we're talking about Plan9, every process has its own environment, so Acme has a set of internal binaries that end up in its own /bin. These little "command" programs just use RPC to send commands to the current Acme instance. So the "scripting environment" here is literally the shell itself! (And you can "script" Acme from outside it, too, by mounting its command-binaries from wherever it keeps them, into your process's /bin dir.)
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I wouldn't be comfortable agreeing to that statement.
Writing copy for a startup is not hard. It's just boring as fuck to most really good copywriters, who accordingly avoid startup jobs when possible.
Did you try understanding or asking them why they made those choices, and whether your interpretation is accurate?
not to mention gaddafi