skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bram Cohen is working on "Chia", an alternative to Bitcoin that uses alternative, low power proofs:

https://www.facebook.com/BerkeleyBlockchain/videos/200606982...
For the same reason Microsoft used to make things that only worked in Internet Explorer.
Shinsegae Group to shift to 35-hour workweek
And what about the extreme partisan bias shown by Fox News?
How do you know when it’s time to replace the battery?
Then employ someone to do it for you?
There's a decades-long meme that Apple purposefully slows down older hardware to push people to buy completely new hardware.

Interesting that this effect may be a byproduct of automatic scaling the CPU frequency based on remaining battery capacity, rather than the newer OS versions being purposefully poorly optimized (like most people assume)
They cloned football players every year, and sold them?
Well we shouldn't give up on reining in profiteers and tax-evaders. It's the good fight. Oh and re: middle class retirement plans, the more the gains the more the tax.
Those are cellar spiders, not daddy-longlegs (AKA harvestment AKA opiliones; which aren’t spiders, as they only have one body part). They do look similar though! I like to say that I’ve got opilionophobia, and just happen to be afraid of spiders and some other insects that look like daddy-longlegs.
American police officers training depends on the state. It's generally a months long process and quite rigorous physically and mentally. I have a friend who literally just went through this and I can say he definitely had a lot of training. At the end of the day what they are trained to do is come home at the end of the night. Keeping themselves safe is top priority in a job that can put them in a lot of dangerous situations. We've had many discussions about this line between police officer shootings and justification.
(Not at Google, but Twitter has its own monorepo) Generally submit queue takes 10-20 minutes, longer if you're changing a core library.

I find the larger factor is what kind of test has to run. Feature tests can take a while on CI if you're spinning up lots of embedded services (dependent services, MySQL, storage layers, etc).
For example in svn checking out only some subdirectory instead of entire repo is pretty much the default way how you should use it.
I just made an analogy, didn't say it was the same thing as the cloud.

My point was that in a P2P architecture you must be a server, everyone else must be a server. And being a server is costly. There must be incentives for someone to be a server, and that's not easy. I actually don't remember a single P2P protocol or framework that has solved that problem yet. Perhaps Bitcoin -- for miners only, not for normal nodes.
I think it's worth considering though how much of that is pure problem solving ability, and how much is enthusiasm. I'd wager that the majority of academic programs could be successfully completed as long as long-lasting enthusiasm and time management are in place. Also worth considering is just how many factors can lead to a negative outcome.

I'd bet that physics PHDs get there with persistence, enthusiasm, and money. Intelligence barriers may not stand in there way but I don't think they're the determining factor.
> this kind of problem was localized

I wouldn't consider the mass deforestation of the entire Mediterranean basin "localized".
Relying on others is fine, the problem is when someone relies on you. Please see my answer to the other comment.
Why don't the competing proprietary databases go right at Oracle in their ads to business class at airports.

"Oracle won't let you read or publish benchmarks, maybe too many of their customers would get fired if they did...?" Or variants on the "why do they need to hide?"

Haven't seen a case where going with postgres up front on pure prejudice has backfired. Maybe there are times, it would be interesting to know what and when.
Speaking Hindi – presence of non Hindi speaker of India vs. non Indian
Lol, incredible
"our crimes in the new world"

Considering an entire race / skin color "guilty" is dangerous thinking

even if you consider the son guilty of the fathers sins, it doesn't take into account the enormous number of post-1900 european immigrants who had nothing to do with any of that at any point in history.
The Charter-school crusader
He and his company was the first one to bring many great things to the mass market, because he was constantly pushing ahead of his time. NextStep was most of the core of Mac OS X. without NextStep, Mac OS X and the hardware that ran it would have flopped
All the selectable languages compile to JavaScript. Stopify takes that JavaScript output and makes programs stoppable, steppable, etc. Therefore, each demo is a composition of two compilers: (1) a third-party X-to-JS compiler and (2) Stopify, which compiles JS to stoppable JS.
What do you mean "accidentaly"? You either have the file pinned, or not. If its not pinned, you're not seeding anything. If it's pinned, you're liable same as with BT.
I think she was a woman.
If "U.S. Media lied to by multiple sources that collaborated to spread misleading information, issue retractions" is the most humiliating debacle in ages, then they're doing pretty damn good.
Shadowing isn't the same thing as redefining. Try evaluating the following expression:

let x = 4 ; f y = x + y in let x = 6 in f 10
Lucio in one of the parents proposed that IQ is highly correlated with general competence.
Okay, nvm this got side tracked into semantics :)
Super tight. Adding a better way to change the BPM would be my only suggestion.
But the contents of a mutable ref aren't let-bound.
The device could track the battery's capacity pretty reliably by measuring inputs during charging and outputs during use. The necessary data is even available to third party apps on both iOS and MacOS (Battery Life, and Battery Health are two examples)

It sounds like the idea is that the OS is throttling the performance to extend the battery life of a battery in poor condition, more than it sounds like it is limiting current draw to avoid "brownouts".

I can see why this is a good idea and a bad idea, in that many people simply want a full day of being reachable on the phone more than they want smartphone features, but others who are considering replacement would like to know that a $100 fix would make their phone less frustrating.
Hmm. I wouldn't mind finding out how that actually works.

One question though. Is this driver-dependent in such a way that it only works on newer hardware? For example on the 10+-year old machine I'm using right now, could I play with this?
Open source has moved to git, mostly because being standardized on one vcs made it easier for people to contribute.

A lot of companies don't use git.
This is really interesting, thank you for sharing.
> Multiple sources make it unlikely it was "mistake". It was almost certainly disinformation. The "mistake" was running with unverified information.

When multiple sources agree, it's not unverified—it's a deliberately spread lie.

> Consistently making "mistakes" that go in one direction indicates lack of integrity.

Consistently getting lied to in one direction implies that the people spreading these lies have a specific ideological goal in mind.
> That's overstated. You don't have to be a full-blown accountant

Nope, ideally, you should be better than your average "full-blown" accountant.

> Nobody is going to thank you for producing software that would have been great if only it worked the way you intended.

Look there are minimum levels of competency for a lot of things before you can do anything. In similar fashion, you also need to be able to walk, or at least get around, have some modicum of how to run a business (even if you're just a TL), ... and so on and so forth.
It doesn’t even work on iOS safari.
Jobs didn't get respect because shared facts and results. He got respect because he had extreme confidence and bluster, and no problems lying to people and bullying people, taking credit for their work, AND having good taste.
ODROID C2 out of stock
> This will only change when reuse is equally convenient. If I knew how to accomplish that, I wouldn't be pontificating here, but running my own business doing just that.

Pretty straight-forward really. Increase the cost of once-off convenience. If it costs more to do it the dirty way, people will do it the clean way. But in america, they'll just vote in people that will dig a bigger hole. Probably in what used to be park-land.
> I usually explain that Japan and America have the same average quality

Depends on the attribute, they certainly don't have the same average politeness, honesty, and public cleanliness. But then Japan has some unique downsides as well.
Yeah; there's really no legal difference between what a private citizen can do to protect the life of an innocent vs. what a police officer can do, at least as far as deadly force goes. In situations other than immediate/unavoidable threat to the life of an innocent, police are allowed to overmatch force for compliance, vs. some situations where non-police are supposed to use similar force, but once you hit a situation which allows deadly force, it's basically the same. (This is common law, and was settled well before the US Constitution; the law on homicide is remarkably static. The only interesting change has been the fleeing felon stuff in the US.)

The legal questions which are a lot more interesting around this kind of rescue operation are property damage, unintentional harms, incompetence, liability, etc. (like, if volunteers direct people to a shelter which is itself unsafe, or if people get harmed during rescues. Government agents have a lot of immunity there, relative to private citizens.)
Even if he does, his arguments contradict facts. Which means he didn't do his research or he is indeed a troll.
> The bootstrapping process is sadly very dirty everywhere that it's happened.

Not on the scale China's has been. Their environmental destruction has been on such a scale that nearby countries, even those separated by ocean, have greatly impacted air quality and the oceans themselves have been greatly affected.

Sweden wasn't wreaking Poland's skies and waters as it industrialised.
> Also SAT tests are often used as a proxy for IQ because they correlate so well with it.

That understates it. The SAT is an IQ test, strenuously as the College Board May deny it. The test was originally the scholastic aptitude test and results from it correlate with other IQ tests just as well as results from IQ tests correlate with each other.

If anybody reading wants to know more about the broad field of which IQ is a small part the Wikipedia article on psychometrics is quite good.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychometrics
To be honest, it's a spelling mistake, not a grammar mistake.

The misspelling of a word does not destroy the sentence structure.
Shortly afterward, Jobs banned the practice of putting programmers' names in the "About" UI of the software, so that all the credit would flow to Apple, the company with his face on it.
Nothing too interesting. They're restricted so they can only update their own source code.
It's ok, bitcoin is working even if you don't understand how it works. it's magic unicorns
I just recently read a great book called The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben [1] that touches on the subject of a social network among trees via a fungal network known as the "Wood Wide Web" [2].

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Hidden-Life-Trees-Communicate_Discove...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/30/world/europe/german-fores...
> Please present a single example of a story retracted by either of those two outlets.

Like when doing science, retracting bad information is a good sign; refusing to do so doesn't make you a better news source, it just makes you one that tries to hide your mistakes.
It always was. Beautiful, elegant, shit:

http://machmachines.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/bomb.jpg
> much of the reason they do this is it is trivially easy to use very authentic looking benchmarks to effectively lie

Have you ever paid attention to how GPUs are marketed, or the dirty tricks the drivers use under the hood? In spite of this, it's still pretty easy to find out which GPU at a given price point is faster.
Maybe, but you could easily get through medical school where rote memorisation, hard work, and diligence are more important. (In my country one pathway to medicine is a 6 year undergraduate degree you do straight out of highschool.)

I'm doing a double degree in elec engg and math, but I'm stupid as fuck and likely not going anywhere in life. (not being "falsely modest", I'm really struggling through my degree)

edit: I guess I should mentioned that I'm very close to finishing my degrees
Is there a distributed execution backend like Forge at FB? If so, how similar is it to Forge?
The importance of dumb mistakes in college
Clearly there are feathers. Is it finally settled then? Land-based dinosaurs probably all, or at least most, had feathers?
Without perfect information, fraud is impossible to proscribe.
one day it will click for you. hopefully.
According to the blog post, this will actually increase RAM usage by 10-20%, but luckily, it's disabled but default. I'd be super okay with the RAM usage, if there was a way to keep every tab from loading when opening Chrome. Right now I have 80 tabs, and restarting my computer or Chrome just gives me a minor cringe thinking of having to wait while the CPU gets pegged while every tab loads. Sure, I'm not the common case, but I wish there was an extension for this, or that it was doable with the extension API, like it is in FF.
Using 2015 as a reference, of the people that work in the US (represented by 141,204,625 tax returns), the top 50% paid 97.17% of all federal income taxes. The statement that about half of Americans don't pay federal income taxes is only for those that are filing taxes (and therefore probably working), so if you want to include the non-working, it's more like 75% of Americans don't pay income taxes. Here is the data from the IRS, look at the last table cell at the bottom all the way on the right. https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-soi/15in03etr.xls
Sure. Every year they say they will, but it is sort of like a crackdown that lasts for a week or two before everything goes back to normal again. China doesn’t need another crackdown, they need sustained and consistent rule of law.
> But blaming everything on the Russians doesn't help anyone and will only make you look silly.

Yeah, I guess responding to an attack on our democracy by investigating the extent of the damage is pretty silly, isn't it. We should just sit around and go "oh man those wacky Russian, always up in our business... well, whacha gonna do about it? Nothing, of course, we wouldn't want to be silly." That would be the sensible course of action, clearly.
> I don't know what im going to do when it starts to crap out. I'm gonna give an official battery replacement a try before I buy something new.

You could just buy another SE, they haven't gone anywhere...
Inspiring to see why $1000 makes so much of a difference for many recipients: the most common theme was spending time with family.

Sometimes work just seems like random people fighting tooth and nail to earn millions. It would be interesting to see everyone's reasons for acting that way. I bet it usually boils down to "it's for my family". But the real truth there is, having a happy family does not require millions.
If you read the article, it makes it difficult to imagine it was fraud. While it's possible there could have been a "cover-up" motive, it looks unlikely, but at least more likely than outright insurance fraud.
No, before git the standard was svn, and before that, cvs. The switches happened even though there was an existing standard.
Cheap access to truly healthy food would be the most amazing social program, and probably have outsized benefits for its cost.
> 20$ transaction fee is an incentive for the users to restrain themselves to smaller number of larger transfers.

In my country (the Philippines) everyone is buying from high school kids to office workers.

The current minimum transaction fee is around $40. To exchange your bitcoin to Philippine Peso (PHP), the fixed conversion fee is 5%. If those don't seem a lot, get this: 83% of Filipinos earn below $400 a month. Most of whom I know are HODLing their bitcoin because it's too expensive to move their money. They would rather wait for their investment to reap huge gains before they cash out.

Bitcoin here is branded as a "get rich quick" investment scheme, and that's understandable, bitcoin doesn't have a valuable use case here. You can't buy anything here with bitcoin.
Thank you very much I've always wondered. Anywhere else I can read about my rights as an EU citizen? Its a lot harder to get information about it compared to the US I feel
IQ is fat tailed.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fat-tailed_distribution

I regret I can’t find anything on Bing but the below but Google’s blocked where I am.

https://blogs.sas.com/content/iml/2014/10/13/fat-tailed-and-...

There are some other cases where it is generally thought that the distribution is normal, but it is not (in real samples). IQ has too many people in both far ends and has a different shaped tail on the right and left (the maximum is 200 or so, but the minimum is about 40). Weight of adults also has too many in the right tail and is not fully symmetric, but its right tail is also long (unlike that for IQ).
> I've actually been part of a software team driven wild by unknown changes to infrastructure endpoints, causing failure of the integration test suite.

Now imagine that your tests hadn't been so tightly coupled, and there were unknown changes to infrastructure endpoints. Suddenly your code starts failing, and you can't tell why, because your test suite is all green.
I think the point stands. You don’t need a high IQ, just an average one.
People switched to Git because Svn merging continues to suck and branching and tagging are implemented in the most inane way possible.
> Instead, he was arrested for price gouging, spent 4 days in jail, and the generators were confiscated.

But we have a free market. /sarc
the segwit2x contentious fork failed due to an "off-by-one" block height issue in the codebase for miners. Even if all the miners were running it, it would never have activated. Did you even know that?
Also, most of the segwit2x node signalling were indeed done by Amazon AWS instances of non-mining nodes. It was not miner nodes. Did you even know that?
Good point.

It's important to stress that Google uses Perforce and not git (at least for that monorepo, they use git/gerrit for Android).

A monorepo this size would simply not scale on git, at least not without huge amounts of hacks (and to be fair, Google built an entire infrastructure on top of Perforce to make their monorepo work).
I have two main concerns when I see monorepos being used.

First, like in other areas, I see companies that want to "google
scale" and blindly copy the idea of monorepos but without the requisite tooling teams or cloud computing background / infrastructure that makes this possible.

Second, I worry about the coupling between unrelated products. While I admit part of this probably comes from my more libertarian world view but I have seen something as basic as a server upgrade schedule that is tailored for one product severely hurt the development of another product, to the point of almost halting development for months. I can't imagine needing a new feature or a big fix from a dependency but to be stuck because the whole company isn't ready to upgrade.

I've read of at least one less serious case of this from google with JUnit

> In 2007, Google tried to upgrade their JUnit from 3.8.x to 4.x and struggled as there was a subtle backward incompatibility in a small percentage of their usages of it. The change-set became very large, and struggled to keep up with the rate developers were adding tests.

https://trunkbaseddevelopment.com/monorepos/#third-party-dep...
Except for that _one_ time. ZRH SRE has never been the same.
The problem here in Oregon is not presorting the recycling.

The centers can’t sort to the level of “purity” required and people don’t realize how truly problematic it is to be lazy in presorting.

I honestly didn’t think it was that big of a deal to let some plastic bags make it in to recycling. I know better now, mainly due to local npr reporting.

There is not much to solve laziness, but sorting tech has room to advance.
IQ is a fat tailed distribution. There are way more people in the tails than the test’s definition and morning would suggest.
The conflict with muslims is not comparable because 'muslim' is not a race. Also, muslims seem to have conflicts in the entire world.
I think we can, if we get to the layers below those particles. i.e. if we develop full mathematical descriptions of quarks and electrons, and the behavior of the four fundamental forces (strong, weak, electromagnetic and gravity), I think a computer simulation will be able to predict the macroscopic properties of any element.
I dunno, it seems pretty straightforward to me unless I'm missing something. Color change at the sharpest point of the curve has an antialiasing effect that pronounces the shift and makes it look zigzag.
Not gonna happen.
>but I've been diligent with making sure I get a full battery cycle

Do you mean that you ensure that the battery fully discharges down to zero every time? Because if so, that is one of the worst things an average consumer can do to a Li-ion or Li-poly cell over the long term life of their device.
We don't, and it's hell. I may make a change to X, but some other developer doesn't know it, and then one day when he makes a change to X and tries to pull those changes into Y, now he has to change the bits of Y which are affected by my changes as well as his.

I would love to have a monorepo, although I'd advocate for branch-based rather than trunk-based development. Yes, merges can be their own kind of hell, but they impose that cost on the one making breaking changes, rather than everyone else.
The free app "Battery Life" will report the percentage loss of your battery and advise how soon yours needs replacement.

It reported that my 5S has lost 39% of its life and should be replaced immediately. The phone works fine, but loses all its charge in 48 hours, even if it isn't used.

BTW, Linpack (free app) reports the same speed score when connected to the battery charger vs not, so obviously iOS isn't throttling due to its weak battery.
Indeed, and a fairly recent discovery among Velociraptors.

> The feathers of the flightless Velociraptor may have been used for display, for covering their nests while brooding, or for added speed and thrust when running up inclined slopes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velociraptor#Feathers

http://science.sciencemag.org/content/317/5845/1721
Sure, I gave 100k as an example. But I think the same principle applies more generally. It is perfectly possible to run a freelance business charging $50/hour, just expect that your total annual take-home (after health, sales work, accountants, and so on) to be in the $50k range. As for being in a hot market, well this is hacker news and programming is a very hot market right now.

I think a lot of people have a mistaken impression that freelancing is hard to pull off. In my experience, landing a contracting gig at a big hourly rate takes roughly the same amount of effort as it takes to interview and land a full time job. If you can land a full time job, you can probably freelance.