skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, the coating coming off was a pity. After having my screen replaced, I thought I'd have one that didn't have the same production error anymore and yet it came back. Found out too late about the extended warranty program to have it replaced a second time. All I can hope for is that my new 2015 model does have a screen that will last, but I can't find any confirmation anywhere that the issue was ever resolved...
I think someone did a rm -f on SCO, so the problem is solved.
I've run into tons of compiler errors, especially compilers generated by Yocto project. I've also had weird behavior from compilers when running in a VM.

For example: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/45424272/gnu-gcc-bug-whe...
Best way to fight climate change, eliminate all vaccines. The human population will plummet thus ensuring we have reduced the amount of waste. Human remains can help bring nutrients back to the soil. Other species will be able to repopulate naturally.

This won't happen, because we want to live forever or that very least certain technological elites are trying to make that happen. We want to have all the latest technology regardless of the transportation costs (shipping containers). Be able to eat that latest restaurant. I could go on.

Climate change is real. How much is man-made? I don't know and I don't really care. On a personal level I attempt to keep my carbon footprint low, though I drive to work and eat meat daily - I bought half a cow and whole pig and store them in a deep freezer. At the same time I have had the same flip-phone for 3 years, and the prior to that I didn't have one. Have one TV in my house and a record player.

Reduce your consumption to your needs and a few wants, rib-eye steaks. Earth will prosper long after we are gone.
Hmm, I wouldn't have editorialized the title this way. Something like "Google Cloud Spanner Adds Multi-Regional Support" would have been better (if staid). But even if you want to focus on the 5 9s aspect instead, I think that "Google Cloud Spanner promises 5 9s of Availability" would be a perfectly reasonable title for the HN crowd.

Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud.
Yeah, it's hard not to see how his fear of his own fate and that of his father motivate a lot of his more optimistic predictions.
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Is all in the converter tool, if the converter tool can get the tf file into a .mlmodel properly, then it will be supported. Inside is just a bunch of weights and layers and parameters. We just need a proper script to translate it
"if you were to shut down the 'old you' (e.g. goto sleep and never wake up) you really wouldn't care. You didn't experience any pain and you don't exist anymore, so you have nothing to be upset about b/c by definition you don't have any feelings."

You could pretty much say the exact same thing about ordinary death. In fact, I can't figure out how it'd differ from ordinary death in any way, except that hypothetically there'd now be an extra entity inside a machine, and that entity would resemble me in some ways.

If you tried to tell most people they wouldn't care about dying, that they'd just go to sleep and never wake up, and they wouldn't feel any pain, few would be comforted by it and take your proffered suicide pill.
I remember using g++ on Windows (via cygwin or something) and writing a function that was supposed to return a Boolean, but sometimes didn't return any value at all. Real spaghetti, in university, no less. Throwaway code, in my defense. Turns out the code not only escaped detection, but the resulting binary always returned the same Boolean value when the code path where no return should be made were run.

Don't think I've seen one since, though I have found a nasty footgun in Scala where if you do a fold of a parallel collection, you can give the fold a starting value, which will be supplied to all the executing threads. The result therefore depends on how many cores you have running. Sadly I suspect that one's in spec.
> Cas-9 damages the DNA of some cells less because the the mutation was already there. The cells with no cas-9 are noise because they were never treated.

If the mutations were already there, then control in figure 7 in Lonowski et al. would not contain 0% "on-target" mutations. The presence of Cas9 is clearly causing a genetic change that is not already present in the population, and those cells that are changed do not all die. It is clearly not the case that the cells with the desired mutations completely overlapped with the cells transfected.
As others have pointed out, "A New Kind of Science" is a an example of taking existing ideas as your own (probably not maliciously) and making overblown claims for their significance. It's like he's so accomplished no one edits him or checks his work.
Except the new ones have USB-C, which can literally become any other port. Any one of them can become the Ethernet jack. Any one of them can become the video out. Any one of them can become the charging port.
hopefully, a few people at APPLE read hacker news, and relay this information to more and more people in the company.... hope they realize this in 2018.

- macbookpro 13" 2011 user
Yes, for photographs. This shouldn't be surprising.

Note that the FLIF home page doesn't even claim that FLIF is superior to normal JPEG images... it only claims that it's superior to other lossless formats. For lossless formats, you can compare your desired metric (e.g. file size) for your corpus. For lossy formats, you can either fix subjective quality and compare size, or fix size and compare subjective quality. (Or compare some other metric, but these two are more common.)

These are completely different ways of evaluating compression algorithms, and it intuitively makes sense that different algorithms will be better if you evaluate them differently.

Consider that FLAC gives the best bitrate for lossless audio, but Opus gives a far better bitrate when you fix the subjective quality or a better quality when you fix the bitrate at reasonable rates.

Or consider that there is a wide spectrum of data compression algorithms, each of which performs the best depending on how you assign weight to compression speed, decompression speed, and compression ratio, and what is in your corpus. There is a surprising variety of new compression algorithms out there, some of which may be the best for your use case even though their compression ratios are significantly worse than other well-known algorithms (LZ4, LZFSE, Snappy, for example).

JPEG is designed for best quality at reduced bit rates, so it should not be surprising that it is good at doing that, even though it is old and newer algorithms are better.
I'm a grad student and I spend a lot of my time reading CS papers.

It is amazing that you want to start reading CS papers and I highly encourage it. However, if you don't have a CS degree I think papers might be remarkably off-putting (they usually are even to early grad students). I suggest you start with textbooks instead. Papers suffer from not being rewritten once they are published, hence from a pedagogical point of view, they are usually not explained as well as they could be after digesting them for many many years. Another problem is that most papers contain multiple ideas some of which rise and shine and the other ones die (often for good reasons). It is not easy to spot which is which without knowing about the wider context, which you naturally lack as a beginner.

If you insist on reading papers, however, at least don't read them in linear order. A good section order is abstract -> intro -> conclusion -> related work (because it uses comparisons which help) -> background -> evaluation (if exists!) -> technical chapters (those are usually best read in linear order). If there are proofs read them only if you must! If the proof is presented in the paper that is a good indication that it contains multiple subtle points which are tough to understand even if you are an experienced researcher.
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How did that bug pass testing? Isn't the first test of correctness that you generate the 3.5 million permutations of 1..10 and sort every single one correctly?
We must be reading different comments, because this one of yours:

> If you look at the lifetime of Firefox, in the second half there's a negative correlation between (product popularity + contributor experience) and (revenue + company size).

Contains nothing relevant to the comment it's replying to, while simultaneously fabricating data in order to support an argument that yet still reduces to fallaciously conflating correlation and causation. You accuse me of flippant non-retorts, to which I say: garbage in, garbage out, my good friend. :)
I work in embedded software, usually with compilers co-evolving with the hardware.

In 10 years, I've seen 3 compiler bugs. That's just enough to leave the door cracked open for "y'know, it could be a compiler bug..."
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the magesafe2 was bad ;( I've been trough ~5 adapters since I bought the late 2013" in early 2014
Ask HN: Should I accept or reject a Google offer?
I accepted to interview at Google without much expectation. Somehow I got through and received an offer. Now comes to the hard part. I've been working for a small company for many years. I like my job and the people I work with. As far as I concern, working for Google would give me 2 benefits that I can't have in my current job:

* An opportunity to work with large systems and smart people

* A brand that can open future doors

If not for these 2, I would have turned down the offer as comp/perks aren't really better. But there are things I have at my current job that I probably don't have with Google:

* Mostly remote work, only have to travel once in a while

* Design my own job being one of the execs (I only have to report to the CEO, who is almost like a brother figure to me)

* Colleagues who are friends I know for many years

* Could be job for life, unless I screw up really really badly, I can't imagine getting fired ever

Is there any other major benefit of working at Google that I miss? Anyone rejecting an offer at Google (or a big company) before? Why? Would you accept or reject the offer if you were me?

I know this is personal and very dependent on what each person wants in life (especially the last question), but I am sort of paralyzed right now and I post this hoping to see ideas I haven't thought of so that I can make a more informed decision.
And best of all, it might even last a long time without breaking down. Since it has an SSD, those can last 10 years+.
Will CoreML (or any hardware acceleration) on iOS be supported?
I did read that actually, there's nothing in there that really screams a non-average upbringing to me. Maybe above average in terms of wealth... but not ridiculously so.
This isn't quite true. Support for legacy extensions is disabled by default, but can be re-enabled via the `extensions.legacy.enabled` flag in about:config.
Because then there's one big enemy we can gang up on instead of a million little ones that scatter like roaches.
re: the fix for the off-by-one error

// but it should have been:
if (changes == 0) break;

While this fixes the problem, it no longer handles the case where count is negative. Yes, in this function it's likely that "this never happens", but it's generally good practice assume as little as possible.

// still stops on negative values
if (changes < 1) break;

or if negative values could indicate some kind of serious problem:

// first trap problems
if (changes < 0) raise_error();
if (changes == 0) break;
Anyone know the work he refers to as the inspiration for this article?
I though Alibaba like Amazon almost had no competition in China but $18billlion in sales vs $23billion is a lot more competitive than any company Amazon faces in online sales.
I said at a professional level.

Streaming for Fun:Professional Streamer = Football for Fun:Professional Football Players

Not everyone who makes enough money to stream as their primary source of income is competing in tournaments/esports, sometimes they are just entertaining/informative. Regardless of if they are entertainment or skill based, it takes a lot of time and effort to build up enough of a fan base to make it into a primary source of income.
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Not so much better as more tractable...
That McD's story is like second level fake-news/rush-to-judgement. Yes, the woman was seriously hurt. So people shouldn't have reacted quite so strongly.

But now people use it as an example of rush to judgement, when really, people were mostly right about it in the first place. She shouldn't have put fresh coffee in her crotch. McD's still brews their coffee just as hot because that is how you are supposed to. She shouldn't have gotten a dime.
Ask HN: Books about “unethical” behavior?
I’m looking for books on “unethical” behavior. More specifically about non conventional practices, stories or anecdotes about situations that people may not have acted in good faith.

We all look up to successful people and what they did to get there. However, most of the time only the ethical and good things are published.

Is there a book that describe bad things people did to get there that they couldn’t talk about publicly? Even if it’s fictional it is ok as long as it is related to business.
A better example is how trash talk at the line of scrimmage used to be done in the NFL.
How does this compare with Directus CMS?
This is the most elegant critique to the current line of Macs I've read so far. I hope it reaches the right eyes and ears.

I tried a 12" MacBook. It was a gorgeous machine and wildly fast given its size.

But its trackpad is a grotesque monstrosity, and while I writing I too often activated it by accident, flinging the cursor to some distant spot by accident. Then I'd have to stop, recover, and reset.

I can't figure out what usability case would mandate a trackpad that large.

I returned the computer and suspect that the last generation of 13" MBPs may become "legendary," because they don't make the ginormous trackpad error.
I'm not sure you've demonstrated anything here about the topic under discussion. You might like to try achieve a better result around here, people tend to appreciate it.
I wonder if anyone has given thought to the possible dangers (some of) the engineers at Intel could be in. Intel has created, from my understanding, the ultimate backdoor.

This is something that governments worldwide, large criminal organizations and others would be interested in.

I can't believe I'm even typing something like this! It reads like something from a bad dystopian film. To even have something like Intel ME considered would have been mind-blowing enough. To have implemented it... there are no words.
Why? Just create a new db if you want to make a change :-)
Though you lose multi-process operation, I think....
An Experimental Study of the Skype VoIP Protocol (2006)
This looks really interesting, for users in and out of sales. Getting LinkedIn profiles inside a Gmail client is a no-brain integration.
Looked that up, sounds perhaps like a harder diet than gluten free. Giving up onions and garlic, plus pasta, bread, etc...ouch. You have my sympathy.
IRC then via Chris Messina [0]

edit: although disappointingly he seems to use this fact as quite a personal branding tool now

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Messina_(open-source_adv...
Zora Neale Hurston: “A Genius of the South”
Ah, but if I don't go through the pain now, I will get to learn an entirely new definition of pain and suffering later on when I (hopefully) have a huge ES search index in production.
Don't know. McD made the coffee purposely hot so people wouldn't drink it inside the local shop, meaning they would get less refills. They knew people were getting burned because of it, and decided to keep doing it. They had the power to fix it and the incentive not to. Being liable in a lawsuit is the right kind of fix.
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It is very much not the homeopathy of psychedelics. Homeopathic medicine is where you dramatically dilute the medicine to the point where there's no appreciable amount of active medicine in the dose. There's some theory that the water molecules "remember" the medicine, or some such stupid bullshit. A microdose of psychedelics (for example, https://thethirdwave.co/microdosing-lsd-mushrooms/) is misnamed. It's about 1/10 of a normal trip (a decidose?) Enough to feel buzzed, not enough to blast off into outer space.

As a matter of fact, I took a microdose of shrooms an hour ago. I don't need to blind my dose, I can tell when I'm buzzed. I'm not arguing that it's noticeably improving my intelligence, performance, stamina, or anything, but it is most definitely making my afternoon more enjoyable.
Spectral rendering [1] could possibly fulfill that role, given a proper mapping to the specific color receptors of those animals.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectral_rendering
I completely agree with you. The battery to power balance was amazing. It really lasted all day unlike the MacBook/MacBook Pro we have today.
Airbnb revenue jumps 50 percent to about $1B in Q3
If I understand correctly, the guy downloaded a data set, train it and get happy because it performs over 95% on the training set from the data set.

This is not interesting at all because the hard part is to actually segment and classify characters in a real text, and in real life they don’t conveniently come as 28x28 images. As someone with a few hours of training in reading that kind of texts the difficulties are:

- taking appart characters (hentaigana) that looks very close

- segmenting characters because size and length vary a lot

- differentiating between kana and kanji because the former are deritaves of the latter and they sometime look quite alike

So the experimenter should have started his post telling he didn’t know any Japanese instead of closing it as such (even if one can notice when he just use modern kana as classes).
> 1. Issuing RSUs in a non-public company send like a bad idea. Does anyone actually do this?

We offer stock grants (basically RSUs without a formal vesting schedule) to key employees at my firm and have had no issues. You say that there are issues with the vested stock not being liquid, but the issuing employer can simply offer to buy the shares back if needed at fair value if liquidity is needed, which we determine according to a formula which inputs the firm's balance sheet and trailing profitability.

This has the advantage of being very straight forward, both to the owners as the issuing party, and the employees -- but has the cost of being disadvantaged by the tax code.

Contemporary startup options packages are anything but that. Most of the time neither the employee receiving them nor the HR person explaining them has any idea how they really work -- but for all that opacity, they get a preferential tax treatment.

It's probably worth pointing out that the only reason startups rely so heavily on option compensation as opposed to simple equity grants are for the reasons above: they are tax advantaged, and the employees have no idea what they're getting. I wouldn't mind seeing the startup world return to a more easy to understand scheme.
Unfortunately, you may be in the wrong journalistic era for those.
Were the issues with mouse lag on the 2012 model hardware or software related? I tried a 2012 right when it first came out and got physically nauseous from the extreme degree of mouse lag when scrolling. The 2013 never had any problems and I've been using that for the last 4 years.
Please, that's one of the most useful troubleshooting tools in Chrome.
This makes me so sad. My laptop is a tool that I use for close to 12 (maybe even more!) hours per day. Every single day. It is the tool I use more than any other tool. It is such an important part of my life. It's so important that it work well.

I remember when I got my first MBP (it was a 2010 model). I had long been a linux user, and getting the mac was something I had done begrudgingly. I remember how the little LED on the front would fade (not blink!) on and off. I thought it was really cool. I heard a story (maybe from here, actually?) that the apple engineers studied the way that humans breathe when they're sleeping, and modeled the fade after that.

When I told this story to one of my friends (a long time mac user) she just laughed and said "Welcome to mac, Ryan.".

I can't imagine a "welcome to mac" story like that one anymore. The only version of "welcome to mac" I can think of is Apple seemingly crippling their own hardware. Can't use your headphones on their $1000 (!) phone? Welcome to mac! Can't plug anything USB into your laptop without an adapter? Welcome to mac! Can't even plug your $1000 phone into your $1500 laptop made by the same company without an adapter? Welcome to mac!

The new MBPs are just such a downgrade. I totally get why they dropped the optical drive when they did. Online/flash storage was getting cheap enough and ubiquitous enough that it was a real replacement for CDs.

This is not the case with USB-C, evidenced by the fact that apple doesn't even use it on their own consumer electronics yet (!!!).

The new macs are really pretty. I do not understand and probably will never understand their hardware design decisions.
Read it, expecting summers in Rangoon, luge lessons, and meat helmets. Was rather disappointed.
Way back in the day HP had just transitioned its HP-UX C++ compiler from its older, Cfront-based, C++ compiler to a native solution. I found (in released code, no less!) some fairly trivial template compositions (I forget exactly, but it was something like a map of some object to a vector of something else) that crashed the compiler.
Here’s what appears to be the actual suit in question[0]. Though can’t verify As it’s not straight from the source.

At any rate, the allegations are pretty vague and seem like those of an ambulance chaser seeking. They are seeking a class action lawsuit on behalf of current and past African Americans who’ve ever worked there.

From quick skimming the Vaughn alleges he’s “heard people and supervisors say the Nigga or Nigger”. It doesn’t say exactly at who it was directed to if at all.

I know I’ll get downvoted for saying this, but the factory workers at Tesla for sure say those slang words and for sure listen to rap music.

I don’t think though that Tesla’s managers and executives are out on the floor running a plantation like Roots[1]

[0]www.civilrightsca.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/2017-11-13-Complaint-File-Stamped-Copy.pdf

[1]https://vimeo.com/1816274
I (somewhat) agree. At the very least, I dislike how people equate "nasty burn" with "obvious guilt". That's not how it works. There are many ways you can get a burn without it being some big corporation's fault. If you prepare boiling water in a kettle and spill it on yourself, you can't use the nasty burns as proof that the kettlemaker was obviously guilty and deserving to pay your bills.

There is a defensible case that the particular level of coffee temperature, combined with some rational standard for how it should be labeled, combined with general consumer preferences for temperature and understanding of what to expect when served coffee, all together imply that McDonald's acted negligently.

But that debate is always short-circuited in discussions about the case, where everyone is tripping over each other to say, "oh, you disagree with the verdict? I guess you didn't see these pictures [NSFW]. Checkmate, skeptics."

Or worse, "the lawyers were really aloof when Liebeck was trying to be cool."

Those really aren't good reasons to make a decision.
Those effects can't really be considered to be "your several-hundred-dollar experience", because you get them all, even the on-screen "thanks", for a much lesser tip. What people are getting out of the large tips is something else.
I donate to Mozilla because they claim to support privacy, and I want them to be less dependent on large donations.