skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
isn't that obvious? it is of utility of verifying that candidate can't secure the ledger.

this really comes down to question whether you think the distributed, writable by anybody ledger is useful to humanity. personally i think it absolutely is. do you?
Sounds you're classifying every viewpoint that is disagreeing with you as "emotional".
Yeah, but insects in nature die terribly in all kinds of awful ways.

Like pitcher plants? Or spiders? Yikes!

But then you see what a determined column of army ants can do to a frickin' horse, and you feel less bad about mother nature's ruthless biowarfare striving to keep them in check.

No wonder insects and swarms are the inspiration for so much horror-y sci-fi
So, this is the next attack vector? Bitcoin is not green?

The energy put into Proof-of-work is what makes the system immutable. People who complain about bitcoin's energy use, don't seem to grasp what makes the bitcoin Blockchain immutable. In order to change the Database, you have to go back and do the "work" which becomes practically impossible after approx. 10 blocks. You take that away and you'll make the system Tamper evident, and not Tamper Proof as it is right now. It's the only secure data base ever invented, and thats because of the energy used to secure it.

I don't see these people complaining how much energy Las Vegas wastes. Or Hollywood. What about professional sports? How much energy does going to war cost? All of these are less important than the only sovereign moneys system in the history of man-kind. So, please, stop complaining about the energy use, i left my violin at home.
That's not a desktop, it's a kiosk. Linux is actually fine for these kinds of single-tasking embedded use-cases.

But seriously, who does that? I don't know anyone who primarily uses a desktop computer just to browse the web. That's what tablets and phones are for. ChromeOS is just one of those with a bigger screen and a keyboard, which is why it is perfect for them.

"Family desktop" was only a thing in the brief period between the internet becoming popular with consumers and the first iPhone. Outside of that period, multi-user desktops (or microcomputers, if you recall the 80s) are an extreme edge case.
How about: the ecosystem was the way humans nostalgically preferred it before the mosquitos came, and it'll likely be the way humans nostalgically preferred it again once they're gone.
This is key. The phone company is a common carrier, and can reasonably claim not to discriminate.

Facebook's entire reason to exist is to introspect on, and discriminate between, messages you send through them.
Normal people like to find the things which they store. If they're storing images, 99% of the time there won't be much metadata or text alternatives available — it's the same reason why everyone is investing in image classification and face recognition so you can search for “uncle bob” and find pictures which have them.
How many planets do we have? By my count it's one.

What's our track record on changing ecosystems to fix problems without creating worse problems? Zero out of how many?

I hate mosquito too, and they are probably useless, but no good engineer makes changes without a backup and a tested rollback strategy, where's our backup?
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The type, albeit nameable, may not be a part of the public API—it could be an implementation detail subject to change. This is the case with some standard library types such as those returned by std::bind where the exact name of the type is explicitly left unspecified. It is possible to enforce this by returning a type whose name has private visibility—such a type is perfectly usable from the outside of its declaring class except that you cannot refer to it by its name.
Eliminating an insect that has been here for millions of years, part of the food chain, helping thousands of micro-organism to mix DNA and be exposed to various conditions, thus helping evolution... That won't cause a major issue ? Sure ? 100% Safe ? You swear ? No backies in case of totally destroying our environment like we always do ?

We are such an arrogant specie.
Or so the Toxiplasmosis Gondii parasite in your brain would have you believe.
Not even that helps.

Netbooks were released each with its own Linux flavour, thanks to lack of driver ABI, it was almost impossible to replace them with more common distributions.

I have an Asus 1516B, sold with Ubuntu, that I had to fight with Firefox for proper hardware acceleration and being able to wake after hibernation.

A Dell developer laptop could have been another option, but they are always unavailable in European shops.

Intel GPUs are no match for good 3D acceleration, case in point, what they just announced with AMD.

Windows can also rollback without issues, just keep the snapshots and shadow file system configured.

OS X can easily rollback with Time Machine.
>I find it appalling that you don't even confront the question of "why are we using algorithms to promote news"?

So you think news could be effectively be curated on Google's scale by humans alone?

>Unless Google can somehow find a way to reliably present factual content, what they're doing here is fundamentally irresponsible.

Where do they claim that the content they present if factual? You are assuming this. They merely aggregate data, what you do with the data is your responsibility, not Google's. A higher ranking in results does not mean a higher level of accuracy in the content of the result, as anyone researching anything could tell you.

>The proof is in the pudding, and Google's pudding sometimes has chunks of shit in it. The onus is not on me to understand why that shit got there to be able to state that I don't want shit in my pudding.

I think what you are trying to say here is that you search for things expecting "the truth" to be given to you. Google only gives you things to read, you actually need to read them to determine if you think they're true or not. The onus is on you.

Don't believe everything that Google "tells" you. For a while, asking Google Now how tall the current president was (after Trump took office) would still give you Obama's height. Had you not actually looked at your phone, you wouldn't have noticed that the height it spoke back to you was for the wrong president. If you went around claiming Trump was the same height as Obama (they are actually pretty close, but that's besides the point) then you would be wrong and the responsibility would be solely yours for simply accepting whatever Google told you without checking other sources.
Most people on HN are not looking for fun. They're here for information, intelligent discussion, and constructive criticism.

Use Reddit for fun! There is plenty of fun on the internet. Like Reddit, hackers don't want [Serious] tag.
Does anyone have opinions on how well Intellisense for python in VS code works in comparison to Jedi or PyCharm / Jetbrains' completion?
Completely unethical headline. It's not even borderline wrong, it's flat out wrong in order to drive clicks. That's just scummy.
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Bitcoin basically is money (a store of value and medium of exchange, with some speculation on increasing future value thrown in that won't change the logic here).

Increasing the amount of money in the world does not increase the amount of goods and services in the world. Thus turning energy into bitcoins will increase any other goods and services but instead results in more money chasing the same amount of goods and services.

Just as one gets apparent economic benefits from paying people to dig holes and fill them, one can get some appearance of benefit from resources being diverted to bitcoin mining. This is OK as long as we imagine an unlimited external resource world we exploit however we want but once you get to a world we have finite atmosphere, finite biosphere etc and pumping enough C02 into these can kill all of us, this sort of approach is becoming untenable.
Note that honeybees are livestock.

Their presence in the US is itself an example of manipulating the environment to our own ends.
People who are really, really interested in performance will want code optimized for their CPU.

So, you would have to provide binaries for every CPU variant.

Worse, those users might also want to mix and match. For example, if they have a small SSD, they may want to optimize infrequently used tools for size, not speed, and they might want to optimize others for start up speed or security (you may want your web server to have all kinds of protections against attacks, even if that makes it slower)

=> in practice, it’s easier to let those few users who care about this build their own software.
OT

Anyone using VS Code for C++?
What is you setup, are you also using cmake?
The author:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Louis_Gass%C3%A9e
I was amazed to learn that the USPS leaves packages on the door step, always. I mean this was a surprise to me because I grew up in the UK where said package would be stolen in short order, and then for the past 20 years living in the US I was in either apartments where there is no doorstep, or out in the wilds where the postman doesn't come within a few miles of your doorstep. I'd never been in a situation where the post office were able to leave a package on my stoop. But now we have an office location in town with a bone fide door step, right on a busy street and they leave packages in plain sight. When I expressed surprise I was told this is standard procedure for the USPS everywhere. I have a security camera pointed at the door step and so far no thief has stepped forward to have their picture taken...
> If you're an open source developer, for instance, why would you work to improve or maintain software X when you can create an alternative that does things slightly differently? That looks a lot more impressive on a resume.

One could argue that this is one of the driving causes behind the current JavaScript churn madness.
Might not be possible if you’re running your cluster on bare metal.
Thank you. Every time we are so sure of something being totally safe, it's just the sign we don't know enough about it.

Honestly I sometimes wonder how we still haven't killed ourself already. We are very lucky bastards.
Yes? Being BTC doesn't change the value of it.
Not MS but there is a project in the works for roughly that(uses same base Monaco editor). Current version of VS code does actually rely a lot on file system stuff.

https://github.com/theia-ide/theia
It definitely should not be considered evidence by anyone credible. Attribution requires more than just some snippets of traffic and metadata.

Here is a pretty interesting presentation from the Snowden leaks regarding attribution of Chinese CNE (Warning: TS/SI content): https://www.eff.org/files/2015/02/03/20150117-spiegel-byzant...
Google is already deciding which ideas propagate.

It's entirely reasonable for us to ask them not to do a shit job of it.
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I use it because I prefer editors that don't require relevant mental overhead (and for me, the text-editing "efficiency" is the least relevant part of the editor experience). Simplicity is a big factor for me in editor choice. I used Sublime previously, but VSCode won out with significantly better intellisense support – this python extension for example. The language servers have been awesome.
One reason I could see is if upgrading in place is substantially faster or cheaper than migrating data to new ones.

For instance, if the nodes are storage nodes in a redundant storage system, taking each one offline briefly for a reboot, and letting the others handle the slightly higher load, is a lot quicker than spinning up a new node and replicating all of the data over there so you can de-provision the old one.

Also, even if they don't have a lot of data, the time and resulting expense of spinning up and provisioning a new node while the old one is still online could add up to higher costs than just performing a reboot during a point of lower load.
I'd like autocomplete that I know what it's going to do. The current plugin is inconsistent, with better results when you type more slowly.

If I hit "tab" somewhere besides the beginning of a line, I should get autocomplete options. If it hasn't pondered enough in the background to give me autocomplete options yet, it should unobtrusively tell me so. It should not insert spaces instead.
The recent Appleby disclosures (aka "Paradise papers") had an interesting pitch for wealthy clients that explained that often third generation offspring were the point where they no longer understood how the wealth was created and things started dissipating. What Sean was alluding to was life extension technologies that would allow the original creator of the wealth to hang around for much longer periods of time.

Many dystopian novels have explored that concept where at the point people can be kept alive indefinitely the moving around of wealth stops. Anybody not in the 'club' at that point is doomed to fight for fewer and fewer available resources. I personally don't feel that is the most accurate prediction of what will happen when billionaires become immortal but I recognize it as a possibility.
duplicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15661314
Any one who read the article would know that. They'd also know LiMux comes with a LiNux desktop client, which is referenced about 10 times in the article.
demand and offer, I wander why the elitist hacker rank "liberal" people don't get it, the difficulty is so high because there is a lot of hash power, the network would be fine with much less, I think around 15% of the current one.

On the logic of banning stuff for power saving, we should ban video games and movies.
No kidding...

while success: ### while success == True
Is it ethical to reward people simply because the abbreviation of their country is a certain 2 letters? That seems the opposite of ethical.
Mao started a campaign to kill all sparrows because they eat the "grain of the people".

Well, right after that, insects started proliferating, so then they had to exterminate all of them.

Among the insects killed, pollinators died. So that region now looks completely Marsformed and now all agriculture required pollination by hand.

Killing a species can start a slippery slope.
Most of the "hate" is just as superficial as programmers teasing people that use other languages, or sysadmins trash talking other operating systems. I can see the Walt Whitman bridge from the end of my road, and I have made friends with plenty of people from North, and Central Jersey.

...Another fun one is to pretend that Central Jersey doesn't exist, or to claim to be a proud Shoobie (or Benny) to the shore people :-)
Yeah that's a hot mic. I was going crazy and thought it was all the Tylenol I was taking for my pancreas lately - but no.

It sure can be a nifty device to live with, but sometimes I pull the damn plug out of the wall. My dwelling isn't exactly an ashram, but to hell if I'm living with that thing monitoring me around the clock.
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24th richest with $11B spread across 174 surviving heirs doesn't seem all that rich to me. That averages out to about $60M/heir, which is about what you get for selling a medium-sized technology company with cofounders & investors, or a relatively small one you own yourself, or owning 0.01% of Facebook or Google (roughly first 50-100 employees, if my equity experience with other startups is any guide).
Not zero. Here are some changes we've made that affected the living things around us, but they were worth the risk 1 Indoor plumbing 2 elimination of wolves and other predators around us 3 elimination of lice and rats from our bodies and homes 4 vaccination
I've always liked this story...

http://www.niagarafrontier.com/fallsstopped.html

"A number of people made their way into the gorge to the riverbed. Here they saw articles that had been laying on the river's bottom and had been hidden for hundreds of years. Souvenirs picked up included bayonets, guns barrels, muskets, tomahawks and other artifacts of the War of 1812."

(Even though 36 years isn't hundreds of years.)
Worse than PyCharm. I miss PyCharm's completion. Not enough to put up with the rest of the PyCharm interface, but I miss it.
You're taking a "if it ain't broke don't fix it" approach, but the reality is that it is broken. Mosquitos kill millions.
.io is managed by Afilias. They took over and migrated the registry to their system in June. Afilias manages many other TLDs including:

.adult
.ag
.archi
.bet
.bio
.black
.blue
.bz
.global
.green
.in
.info
.kim
.lgbt
.ltda
.me
.mn
.mobi
.ngo/.ong
.org
.pet
.pink
.poker
.porn
.promo
.red
.sc
.shiksha
.vc
.vegas
.vote
.voto

They are a very reliable registry operator. This was a bad screw up, and I guess it had something to do with the migration.
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Yeah, like the rabbits brits introduced in australia or the money... brits paid to kill snakes in india. That worked out so well.

Wait a minute. Brits also created the US. The problem are not mosquitoes. It's the UK!
Sounds like the UK has effectively given away the atoll to the US. The US is not going to pack up their very important torture base just because the UK asks them to. Denying the islanders permission to return is just a face-saving move to avoid admitting that the UK no longer controls the territory.
This study is asking a question, and that question is not which sex engages in bad behavior! That's an oddly antagonistic approach to the subject. Are there other interesting questions out there? You bet. But studies are performed one at a time.
It's a bit different in that this isn't a permanent change. This won't wipe out mosquitos everywhere just yet. The infected males will mate with females, and their eggs will be nonviable.

Then the males will die, and wild males and females will continue to mate and produce viable offspring unless the process is repeated. There's plenty of room for finding errors and fixing them --up until all mosquitos are eradicated.
Dropbox has never been sold as "pure backup" like Backblaze, and isn't priced like it (I'm a paying customer of both). I'm not paying Dropbox to backup my data, I'm paying them to sync my data across machines, make it available to me on devices I don't own, make it easy to share with family and friends, etc. I want Dropbox to OCR my documents -- I don't really want Backblaze to (and Backblaze's margins probably don't have any wiggle room for added features).
Deathly allergic actually, but I'm honest about the reality of humans and the planet. Life we favor thrives, or life which thrives in conditions we create becomes dominant. We reshape the environment, and that includes mass settlements with pets.

Any one issue wouldn't be an issue without the others... if birds were not under pressure from every conceivable angle, any one angle wouldn't be a catastrophe. The real issue is holistic, and it is us. For birds it's habitat loss, pesticide and herbicide, hunting, poisoning, trapping, mirror-solar arrays, wind turbines, cats, etc... etc... etc...

The story is the same everywhere, and the nature of the pressure is that there are too damned many of us.
Maybe it looks something like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSF5PbwKU3I
And the thing with ChromeOS and Android, is that having Linux as a kernel, it is just an implementation detail.

Given their managed userspace, Google can switch to something else and only OEMs would notice.
No, not really. If your job is to compare countries, how else would you do it? Seriously.

PS: you know medians exist and those studies account for it, right? Nobody is saying YOUR school is mediocre.
There is a color photo from this period on Wikipedia as well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niagara_Falls#/media/File:Dryn...
OCR for really basic documents might be "hello world", but as usual real world practical applications have all sorts of interesting things that make this a harder problem than it seems.
> Intel GPUs are no match for good 3D acceleration, case in point, what they just announced with AMD.

For regular tasks I find Intel GPUs great. Plus they consume little power.

NVIDIA is also OK on the open Nouveau driver. And when I do deep learning on a workstation, NVIDIA's closed drivers are good.

> Windows can also rollback without issues, just keep the snapshots and shadow file system configured.

Nix rollbacks have absolutely nothing to do with filesystem-level rollbacks.
A mosquito's life is pretty short, on the order of a couple of weeks.
I don't think that this leap of efficiency in "exploiting human psychology" is anything different from propaganda/marketing leaps of previous aeons. Reading the books of the past, they felt equally exploitative and novel back then.

We've coped with that, our descendants will cope with social networks we've created, as well. Attention management and rapid critical thinking would become as crucial mental capacities as IQ and EQ are today.

If, of course, smart people acquiring these skills over the next generations are still going to have descendants and the volume is significant enough, because typical "exploited" subjects are going to, you bet.
For me it is more like "Crack used to be addictive; it still is, and it used to as well."
You can learn C++ if you want, but don't get frustrated if you don't understand everything. Baby steps. You will be refining your knowledge for years.
For a complete history of the falls, including many more obscure stories and details of the de-watering and reconstruction, see Ginger Strand's book:

http://gingerstrand.com/niagara_book.htm
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I've been using a less strict version of this method to multiply in my head since I was a kid. Nice to know there's a name for it.

You can also take advantage of multiples of 5 and 10. For example:

115 x 37 = (100 + 10 + 5) x 37
= 3700 + 370 + 370/2
= 3700 + 370 + 300/2 + 70/2
= 3700 + 370 + 150 + 35
= 4255
No, I suppose my point was more that people think that one of the features of Google search results is correctness, which is false. The main feature of Google searches is that it shows you what it thinks you want to see.

The "product" here is the fast search engine that indexes a massive portion of all human knowledge and tries to provide you with results that are meaningful to you all within a quarter of a second. I don't think it is broken, I think it is a miracle that it works as well as it does.

Unfortunately, there is no algorithm to determine "the truth", mainly because there is no universal truth. This is a feature of the world we live in, though I suppose you could call it a bug if you think that there should be some kind of universal truth.
I never touched the stuff, but I would end up having to take my friend to the ER. For some reason at different times it would cause an allergic reaction and he would act like he was in septic shock and have dementia.

Doctors and I were convinced he was not telling the truth or his stuff was laced. Ended up that he was telling the truth and was clean other than pot. Sad thing was he would keep using pot which ended up messing with his health.

I never see why people care to be sedated emotional. Worst thing about pot to me. They miss out on so much emotionally.
You could try submitting it on the resume advice thread in the cscareerquestions subreddit every Tuesday or Saturday.

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... because that’s not the question the study was addressing.

We know that lower-status members of a community tend to be more hostile to newcomers / outsiders. The specific question here was ‘does this apply in this particular circumstance’.

Incidentally, your agenda is showing.