skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for posting this here! I will admit, it's hard to know when to start posting it around, but this is already a fair bit more accurate than the traditional RFCs in a lot of ways. It's also lead to an Internet-Draft around CTCP being submitted here:
https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-oakley-irc-ctcp-01

If anyone's interested in contributing or asking questions, just reach out!
Why is AWS so dominant and, surprisingly to me at least, gaining on the competition?

Google Cloud seems quite neat and in the same price range. OVH is much cheaper and uses OpenStack. Businesses in the Microsoft sphere should buy Azure quite easily. And there are many smaller, specialized providers for various needs.

Amazon's lead should be eroding not consolidating. Is it just that they were first and everyone standardised on their tools? Devops people choosing AWS on autopilot because it's what they know works?

BTW this has to be the best blog header in the business.
You’re right, FastSpring was probably a bad example seeing as they offer their own licensed distribution system (albeit a little basic functionality-wise for software), but payment providers like Stripe, PayPal and Paddle do not (well, Paddle kind of does but like you said—-not really, and you have to host your own files).
10 years ago, I helped design a similar system. It was a capabilities based OS on a formally modeled microkernel.

I'm still not sure than there's a market for this stuff. It must be free, and it's hard to build a business model around that.
Introducing Olympus – A tool that instantly creates a REST API for any AI model
Stop using your phone during social interactions
Enpass [0] offers a native Linux app. However it's not opensource.

[0]: https://www.enpass.io/
> I have licensed work

What does this mean?
On OSX (as the linked post shows) it's pretty rare to use the GPU.

Not all TF components are GPU enabled anyway. The default LSTM isn't and you need to use CuLSTM. That is nice but doesn't support the GoBackwards operation so you can't use it in BiLSTMs.

GPUs are great but there is lots done on the CPU too.

Edit: To clarify, the comments on the LSTM implementations are actually on the Keras/TF LSTM. Not sure what the native TF one is like.
Hi guys!

I'm Subhash, and I've just released a new open source tool for instantly creating a REST API for any ML model.

Currently, it's a work in progress and supports all Keras models (including multi-input/output).

What do you guys think? Would love your feedback!
I have seen reactor designs with a borosilicate sand pile under the reactor. Presumably the molten core will turn the sand into borosilicate glass which not only freezes at a high temperature but is also a radiation shield.
> right now only the Edge browser

Did you know if you force remove Edge from Windows 10 it will forever after ignore the "always use this" checkbox and prompt you to choose your default browser every time the browser is called from a link in an application?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_Daiichi_nuclear_disa...

reminds us that nuclear kills much less than regular earthquakes, car accidents, or air pollution due to the burning of fossil fuels...
The idea is to set an example. You basically write off this debtor, in the interest of encouraging your other million debtors to think before defaulting on their loans.
Wasn't something like that poured under Chernobyl after the accident which prevented the radioactive slurry from entering deep into the ground?
Education has always been mostly about culture and family (and individual interest/motivation) as opposed to any specific role of public education if all of those things are lacking.

IMO, the standardized testing bugbear is at least partly a red herring. An excessive focus on teaching to the test is bad; I'm sure we can all agree. But it's worth remembering that the increased focus on standardized testing grew out of a system where accountability and metrics of any sort were pretty much a four-letter word.
If a highly skilled thief wants to break into my house they could jimmy the latch on the window and let themselves in.

I don't have any bars on my windows to prevent that.

You need to draw the line somewhere.
> that would mean you would have confusion

does this confusion not exist now?
Why they keep pumping out their oil and buying financial junk for this, I really don’t understand. Just keep the oil in the ground if you want safety fund, stop financing all kinds of modern tech bullshit around the world. This is my advice to Norwegians, your fund is going to turn into pile of junk when you most need it. Conserve your resources instead.
Strong as the weakest link...NSA with virtually unlimited budget brought to its knees:

"Inside the agency’s Maryland headquarters and its campuses around the country, N.S.A. employees have been subjected to polygraphs and suspended from their jobs in a hunt for turncoats allied with the Shadow Brokers. Much of the agency’s arsenal is still being replaced, curtailing operations. Morale has plunged, and experienced specialists are leaving the agency for better-paying jobs — including with firms defending computer networks from intrusions that use the N.S.A.’s leaked tools.

“It’s a disaster on multiple levels,” Mr. Williams said. “It’s embarrassing that the people responsible for this have not been brought to justice.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/12/us/nsa-shadow-brokers.htm...
This badly understates the Chernobyl response. They did remove the heavily contaminated surface soil from the immediate vicinity and clean up the rest of the site so they could continue to operate the remaining reactors. They built the Shelter Object ("sarcophagus"), instead of just pouring concrete all over the site, so that they could continue to monitor and inspect. And earlier this year, they at last covered the Shelter Object with the long-delayed New Safe Confinement, which includes cranes and other robotics intended to dismantle and decontaminate both the Shelter and the ruins of the reactor.

It's certainly true that the Soviets, and after them Belarus and Ukraine, did/do use the "just leave it alone" strategy for part of their Chernobyl response. But it's by no means the whole story.
I'm intrigued to see Google Maps on your list. Could you expand on that?
KOMiK HAYVAN KOSTÜMLERi )))
As seen as another HN thread, seemingly relevant here as well:

http://www.sciencealert.com/new-composite-material-reduces-h...
Tsung definitely! Harder to use at first, but amazingly powerful
This is a commonly known fact, not just my personal feeling.
> and despite the fear mongering of the cultural far right in Europe (and the US) neither is any situation like the native Hawaiians via a vis Zuckerberg.

I think you misread GP's comment. I don't think it's about the modern immigration waves in Europe. Nobody over there is "living at the margins of the invaders' new regime". That's a clear description of the America's natives' plight.
First, I'd remove the implication that the customer is not professional. Assume your customer _is_ professional, but needs help with some bureaucratic functions. The phrase "automatic streamlined process for managerial tasks like client onboarding, signing NDA and requirement collection" is pretty terrible and confusedly jargony. Who is signing the NDA? Unclear. Who is actually benefits from the service? Unclear. IS NDA signing and requirement collection a part of the onboarding process, or some other thing? Unclear.

"We help professional freelancers provide a streamlined process for creating new client accounts. Collecting your client's requirements and NDA forms can be managed directly from your own website."
Irc is the merovingian protocol who has outlived many "new" protocols that were allegedly better than it. Why will this protocol be any different?
A number of Russian middle class volunteers who fought in Donbass war treated it as kind of similar experience - an adventurous game/vacation, a "noble quest to defend 'Russian world' from dark forces of fascism and imperialism".
Unrelated but I thought I'd mention the great Colombian Gabriel García Márquez – one of Latin America's most famous authors.

I like his Nobel Prize speech: La soledad de América Latina (The Solitude of Latin America) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzHWZKZXZwI (audio starts after a while, and captions are in available in English):

> Several themes Márquez addresses in his speech mirror those of his short stories and novels. Márquez touches on European colonialism, colonial legacies, deterritorialization of the Latin American culture, and he specifically addresses Latin American countries that have been affected negatively by foreign policy.

I wish I knew Spanish well enough to fully appreciate his literary style (currently struggling with "Vivir para contarla", his autobiography, looking up every 10th word!).
On your delegates example for C#, since the parameters of the lambda and methods match, and you aren't relying on any closure behaviour, you can use 'method group syntax' to make it even more succinct:

Bax.AddHandler(DoSomething, ComputeInt);
Yeah, I admit the title's not great. I'll update it in the next few days, thanks for the feedback :)
This was written in Jan 2017 with a view that human trials would start in the second half... Any further developments?
It's not like they've removed these while stuff was in your pocket. Huh. Don't buy if you don't like it.
Yep.

In my country (which is not Germany), the big jump is at ~15. While elementary (1-4) and middle schools (5-8) are +/- the same, gymnasiums/high schools (9-12 or 9-10) do differ. For smart kids, 15 is the age to try to get into the elite profile schools in science or art. Or jump to an overall better school. And shitheads are encouraged to go to "main" 9-10 schools which are straight way to trade schools. Although majority of kids stay in mainstream schools and do what you described. But the system offers a way out for both smart kids troublemakers. Which is nice.

Personally I wish kids were more encouraged to aim for a better school at that age. I'm still salty I didn't even try to get into the elite schools since commute seemed too long. Although I did jump to a wee better (and closer) school to escape the overall attitude.
Because it is irc.
So, if someone comes along, who has been seen entering a closed room alone with you, and claims to have been raped repeatedly by you - should we stop associating with you? If a previously consensual encounter is later claimed to be non-consensual, should we ensure that you never get a job again in the tech industry?

Perhaps "convicted in court" is a too high of bar to you, but given the fact that people do lie about being sexually assaulted, perhaps the bar of "being accused means you did it" is a bit too low.

Ultimately it's up to each individual to decide the proper position of their bar, and perhaps this guy did indeed do it (personally, I don't care)... but the current trend of taking the accusers word as an actionable truth is troubling.
$ ping 9.9.9.9
PING 9.9.9.9 (9.9.9.9): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 9.9.9.9: icmp_seq=0 ttl=53 time=98.011 ms
64 bytes from 9.9.9.9: icmp_seq=1 ttl=53 time=96.444 ms
64 bytes from 9.9.9.9: icmp_seq=2 ttl=53 time=96.556 ms
64 bytes from 9.9.9.9: icmp_seq=3 ttl=53 time=96.769 ms
64 bytes from 9.9.9.9: icmp_seq=4 ttl=53 time=104.274 ms
64 bytes from 9.9.9.9: icmp_seq=5 ttl=53 time=102.235 ms
64 bytes from 9.9.9.9: icmp_seq=6 ttl=53 time=97.185 ms

$ ping 8.8.8.8
PING 8.8.8.8 (8.8.8.8): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=0 ttl=45 time=54.808 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=1 ttl=45 time=54.407 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=2 ttl=45 time=55.173 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=3 ttl=45 time=55.058 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=4 ttl=45 time=54.583 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=5 ttl=45 time=54.589 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=6 ttl=45 time=54.645 ms
I’ve written 60,000+ lines of Haskell, some of which are fairly I/O heavy with low-level FFI, raw and unsafe pointer manipulation, etc. I/O heavy code looks just like any other imperative language: you do this, perhaps extract a result, then do that.

In contrast in pure code people have more tendency to get into monad acrobatics, but excessive monad acrobatics is just code smell.
Show HN: Boltzmann Machines in TensorFlow with Examples: RBM, DBM, AIS
So you extrapolated what will happen to the spent nuclear fuel that already began to leak in some places and did the math? I'd like to see it.
It seems like having a license to work is more about barriers than making things safer.
I think you've misunderstood the purpose of this site: they are documenting the existing IRC protocol as it is "generally" implemented today, as IRC is now a poorly-specified pile of hacks upon hacks. This project seems like a good idea for that reason.
I’m not worried about how many people nuclear power kills every year. I’m worried about how many people it kills every hundred years. A major nuclear disaster, however unlikely, has the potential to kill millions of people and leave a big portion of the Earth uninhabitable for centuries. Just because we haven’t seen one on that scale yet, doesn’t mean we never will.
Well to each his ideals and his priority of ideals.

I for one think that:

* social ostracisation is a form of punishment.

* It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer.

* social media in most cases are worse at determining
guilt than the justice system.

and view that:

- social media and public opinion in general have
favored the accused in the past( victim blaming,..)
and as an overcorrecting favors the accuser now. In
both cases such a system leads to unfairness and
unregulated punishment.

These 3 ideals and one experience lead me to prefer a world where all crimes no matter their nature are decided on by court. if that's strange, well I'm strange.

Although, I'd like to say that in this idealised situation the victim is free to relate those abuses in his closed social circle and to the public after the judgment is made
Nuclear reactors need to be built next to a large body of water for cooling. So Japan didn't have a choice when they wanted to have nuclear power.
yeah. My deal with them is to train them to become great engineers. No paperwork needed to enforce anything. They work with me 100% by choice and they know they could be getting a much higher salary somewhere else (and free to leave anytime).
It’s literally incorrect that businesses can sustainably provide no value. It may be the case that they can sustainably offer deals you wouldn’t take, but how we get from there to the business being immoral, useless, or deserving of a ban is more nebulous.

If people are systematically taking deals you wouldn’t, there might be a broad societal problem (why is tht crappy situation anyone’s best option?) or an information problem (why don’t they know better?) but the business offering the deals is probably not a logical or useful target if you want to address the larger problem.
It was supposed to be "concerns."

And anyways... Yea that's the point. You launched a arguments about 'whataboutisms,' or 'navel gazings.' This is what is called "straw man arguments." You assumed that what I said is equivalent to your straw man argument, and then defeated the straw man.
I feel like the only replacement for bankruptcy that works for people coming out of college with few assets is to require any unbankruptable (Is there a real word for this concept?) loan to have a minimum income required for repayment, meaning that if you come out of college unemployed or fail out you have a safety buffer between unemployment and destitution that you won't want to enter intentionally. Similar to the UK system, not that the UK system is currently doing any good.
I'm guessing you and GP are using macOS and probably iOS? 1password lacks a Linux client and my experiments with both the Linux Chrome extension and the Windows client were not great.
Ask HN: What do you use for you personal note taking activity?
Currently, my notes are scattered in unnamed Sublime tabs, pockets, 'safe for later' on fb, pinboards. And they don't end up much useful later.

So, fellow hackers, how do you take notes? What do you use?

I envision a platform which is very accessible (on phone/ laptop), easy and lightweight to jot down things (like sublime tabs, they are very light and I end up using them more than Evernote files, even when I am a premium member).

At the access side, those notes are easy to search, they follow some graph-like data structure, super smooth to add new updates (like if I have a movie node in my db, and I see some interesting movie somewhere, it should be super easy to add them in my list). If I am reading about some new topic, I can create stories out of them and should be able to add notes to it, like adding tweets in a tweet conversation.

I am thinking to make something of my own which cater my needs but meanwhile, I am thinking I will make what already is there rather than not using anything at all.
I was just mentioning Browsium on Twitter recently with the former CTO which was a former IE team member: https://twitter.com/variables/status/925792972372922369
Whoa yeah that signup form killed the experience for me. A definite turn off. Could build a much, much simpler and elegant form.
Apple served with warrant to unlock the Texas shooter’s iPhone SE
And that’s horrible because they’re not only financing Tesla with car purchases, but also tax money and by this large national wealth fund. Why burn your own resources to someone else’s benefit? They don’t develop anything for themselves this way
From War to Worboys: the redesign of British road signs in the early 1960s
And that's with incompetence and neglect.

http://chernobylgallery.com/chernobyl-disaster/cause/

Personnel had an insufficiently detailed understanding of technical procedures involved with the nuclear reactor, and knowingly ignored regulations to speed test completion

And a Japanese reactor that didn't melt down:

https://thebulletin.org/onagawa-japanese-nuclear-power-plant...

Before beginning construction, Tohoku Electric conducted surveys and simulations aimed at predicting tsunami levels. The initial predictions showed that tsunamis in the region historically had an average height of about 3 meters. Based on that, the company constructed its plant at 14.7 meters above sea level, almost five times that height. As more research was done, the estimated tsunami levels climbed higher, and Tohoku Electric conducted periodic checkups based on the new estimate.

There's just no good reason for either Chernobyl or Fukushima. Both were preventable by following simple safety procedures.
Old news. The Russian government, for all practical purposes is the Russian mafia. Many people have written about this starting several years before Steve Blank, the SV entrepreneur, wrote about it in 2008. In 2010, the US Diplomatic Cables Leak confirmed it, going on from there with Luke Harding's book Mafia State. You can get a pretty good look by reading the wikipedia article on this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mafia_state
Secrets of the US Puzzle Championship (2014)
Bonus points if I can query them like what should I do now? Which movie should I watch (but those are secondary requirements which I would like to have some time in future).
https://medium.com/@thegrugq/tor-and-its-discontents-ef51648...

You really just want to use Chrome/Chromium.
Zuck has a Facebook account, doesn't he? Where's the hypocrisy?
I use Nix and it's awesome, but still in early adopter territory. It works wonderfully if you really value reproducible builds and are willing to put some effort in the initial setup, but it's still a bit fiddly and documentation is nearly non-existent. If you have the time and motivation to learn about it up-front and get it set up it pays off, but I wouldn't recommend it to beginners just trying to learn Haskell.
Revolving door.

Gee, wonder if eventually someone will come to conclusion that the whole thing was not needed in the first place.

Unless, you know - there is some proven intel that this agency actually stopped mass-terror attack on a US soil; something that supposed to be their main task.

But hey! So long as military industrial complex find just another good-enough-for-public reason to spend more of tax-payers money, then there is nothing to see here...
Have you seen how many Samsung Galaxy variants exist in comparison?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung_Galaxy#Phones

That's just one manufacturer.
South Dakota is kind of crazy when it comes to this. They cross references people who hold SD drivers licenses with student loan debt databases and buys up the debt. If people fall behind at all, they get a letter warning them that their license will be suspended in 30 days unless they pay up.

South Dakota is a very rural state. There are no metros like NYC, SF, or Seattle where you can rely on public transit to get around.

http://www.ksfy.com/content/news/State-law-sparks-student-de...
In many schools and workplaces today, things (especially social events) are organized on Facebook. You can live without it, but it does put you at a significant disadvantage in some situations.
Say it, don’t spray it: How great writing can grow your business
That’s fine, I don’t like services like ‘hey Siri’ either so I turn them off. Or rather, in the case of ‘hey Siri’, I don’t turn it on.

There is no conspiracy. If you don’t want your phone or other device to listen continuously, do not turn on a service that requires it to do that.
More Than 100 Universities and Colleges Included in Offshore Leaks Database
Wow there is such valuable advice in this entire thread. After you churn through it hopefully you'll be able to get a better handle on where your product is.

For me it just doesn't solve any problem.
A classic from Brecht's "Hollywood Elegies"

---

Every day, to earn my daily bread

I go to the market where lies are bought

Hopefully

I take up my place among the sellers.
Living in a denser urban environment is just a completely different lifestyle than living somewhere in the midwest - you can't have the same set of expectations when comparing them. Just as living in Japan is completely different from living in Texas. Neither is better, and you don't have to force yourself to like one or the other.

But you wouldn't go to live in Japan and expect a 2 story house with a backyard, and space to keep 3 Ford F-150s in a garage would you? In the same way, the entire lifestyle of living in SF/NYC is completely different than living elsewhere. Why use the same metrics to compare the very different lifestyles without taking into account that they are in fact different and can't so easily be compared?

You must be willing to make adjustments to your lifestyle. If you are not willing to do this and you only compare different places against what's familiar - then just stay where you're comfortable - you'll never be happy anywhere else.

I'm lucky enough to have lived in many many different types of environments throughout my life and I see the value in all of them.

By the way, for what it's worth I love my current roommates - I much prefer living with them to living alone.
And they did get their draw, so Stockfish is out of the final regardless of whether it wins its current match against Fire (which seems likely).

Edit: Stockfish did just defeat Fire so the top three are

Houdini 18.5
Komodo 18.5
Stockfish 18.0

So close! But the final will be between Houdini and Komodo.