skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your last sentence was funny, but I disagree with:

"We need to find a balance of forgetting things online"

I rather think we need to find a balance of dealing with each other's misstakes and abandon Facebooks etc. styled and polished world of perfectness.

We are not perfect. We made misstakes. Lot's of them.

But in most cases that's OK, if we learned from it.
> Assuming you mean “integer arithmetic”, the answer is a resounding yes, it's well-defined.

Given that the topic of this article was falsehoods about programming—no, the author did not mean "integer arithmetic".

However, even in the case of mathematics, this isn't true—there are a lot of non-standard models of arithmetic, and which you choose depends on what you're trying to do with it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-standard_model_of_arithmet...
Mine are gigahertz * inches. 11.8ghz * in is the speed of light. Gives you a feel for it and is practical. Want to find an antenna length? Ghz*inches are your friend.
It was noted in the thread that other attempts are made first.
Apologies, apparently I can't read. I thought you were suggesting people would not speed up video x1.33
I believe it was meant to be sarcasm, just not very fitting.
> Hobbyists can always run their own custom mobile OS version.

HAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHA
We have. It’s called forgetting and leaving stuff in the past. Now we have records of everything and disqualify folks with no meaningful reasoning.

When I started my career in the late 90s, I know of a half dozen senior leaders who were actively involved in the Vietnam era anti war movement. My one director had a scar on the back of his head when some cop on a horse cracked it open with a truncheon. He was arrested for loitering and woke up handcuffed to a hospital bed.

That experience might have excluded him from service with the FBI, but otherwise would have no impact. Twenty years from now, will some bullshit arrest like that impact an 18 year old at a Trump protest? Probably.
Extracting the Raw Data from the Hello Sense Sleep Tracker
A newer, extended version here : ftp://ftp.cs.ucla.edu/pub/stat_ser/r475.pdf
> I'm currently reading Digital Gold by Nathaniel. As I progress, its clearer that bitcoin might or might not be a great economic tool but its an awesome case study in game theory.

Yes, and you can abstract that observation from blockchains to cryptography in general, which is the underlying foundation of blockchain technology’s game theoretic fault tolerance. This is particularly clear once you move closer to cryptography’s theoretical and mathematical foundations and away from specific applications (such as encryption or authentication).

Many cryptography textbooks begin with an elementary definition and discussion of the field using notions such as confidentiality, integrity, authentication, non-repudiation, etc. These are all correct, but I prefer Oded Goldreich’s definition, from his Foundations of Cryptography:

Cryptography is concerned with any problem in which one wishes to limit the effects of dishonest users.

In an abstract sense, cryptography has a direct mapping from game theory, and can be considered the use of computational complexity to resolve scenarios in adversarial relationships.

If you’re enjoying looking at blockchains through this lens, you might want to read a few papers on cryptogenography, or zero knowledge proofs (the latter has far more literature). There is also a lot of fun research that uses game theory to model fault tolerance and economics in blockchains.
downvoting because of snarkyness. Your suggestion of alt cmu channel is good however.
As was mentioned in the original thread, other means of attempting to contact the individual occurred. This was apparently not the first attempt or method used to contact individuals.
People aren't idiots. But if you swapped Apple's high-level design choices with, say, the LG V20's high-level design choices, people would still buy the Apple phone over the LG V20.

They're buying the brand, and they're making the call that having something that has Apple-level quality is better than buying a design they would prefer with inferior quality.

But that doesn't preclude Apple's high-level design choices leading to objectively inferior quality (even if the objective inferiority is only to a hypothetical Apple that made better high-level design decisions.)
Oh, I just realized that Roger Espasa, the presenter of this talk, was one of the authors of the Alpha Tarantula paper. Lovely paper back in the day, that showed the advantages of a vector ISA compared to spending the transistors on ever-wider superscalar and deeper OoO.
Mercurial (with lots of extensions) sits on top of Piper at Google. It doesn't replace it.
If it is truly critical, disconnect the device and use the disconnected landing page as your means of communication.

Anything else fails to meet the criteria of "critical".

If I buy a crappy 802.11b wifi dongle, are you going to inject JS too?
Lazarus 1.8 released: cross-platform GUI builder and IDE for Pascal
> However, even in the case of mathematics, this isn't true—there are a lot of non-standard models of arithmetic

Believe it or not, there are people who use actual integers in computer programming. Not everyone is stuck with C and its ilk.

> However, even in the case of mathematics, this isn't true—there are a lot of non-standard models of arithmetic

Meaning is to be found in the axioms themselves, not in models.
Most of the seedbox providers already support a good subset of this.
You can view your files in a browser, you can stream with Plex. You also have full ssh and ftp access, but those are not reallt the points being made here.
That’s unbelievable. I’ve spent most of my work in New York.

I’ve seen my share of work to rule bullshit, but never anything like that. I cannot fathom what a toxic shitshow that agency must be.
> Readable plain-text protocols remove a constant overhead from all debugging/introspection tasks.

As others have pointed out, text-based serialization has significant overhead. To save a few hours of debugging, you're willing to spend gigabytes of bandwidth, an uncountable number of CPU cycles and memory, and all the associated electricity and hosting costs over the lifetime of your service? Penny wise and pound foolish, to say the least.

Text-based serialization formats are just plain stupid for any type of service that handles over 100 requests per second. A good developer is not hampered in the slightest by the fact that their serialization format isn't text.
It filters out: people who just want to complain about centralization; people who are annoyed about change and trying to rationalize it without trying or learning the new tool; and people who irrationally feel like they are no longer in control.

Paradoxically, this improves the signal of discussions about systemd's flaws, and there are plenty. With the obviously irrational/haven't-used-it/axe-to-grind stuff filtered out, it's much easier to learn about real features, problems, fixes, benefits, and drawbacks of any project, systemd included.
Yeah, if you are interested in the technical aspects of cryptocurrencies it can be really frustrating because there's so much bullshit and unsubstantiated hype out there. It's as hyped as deep learning, but I guess at least there the field is not as politicized by economics and therefore a bit less prone to the evangelist type of person (similar amount of marketing going on though).

Maybe it's best to ignore anything in medium blog form or similar that wants to explain the blockchain to you. Fortunately, the field is mature enough that there are learning resources by people who know what they are doing out now (for instance the Bitcoin technology book by Arvind Narayanan and others seems pretty good).
I don't believe that lucidguppy was saying that your system was an experiment. Instead, it would be interesting to try implementing your system in a second language so you could compare and contrast the differences. (Of course, in the real-world one often doesn't have the luxury of doing this.)
It's arguably a copyright infringement.
Could you detail that?
I find the reverse is true. My USPS mailbox receives daily credit card application forms, electoral flyers, catalogues, etc. I also get frequent mail from Comcast but they are _all_ bullshit ads, trying to hoodwink me into cable TV. I don't open them anymore, they just go in the bin.

I will at least _glance_ at my email.
One example:

"When you pit Go’s requests per seconds against the likes of Ruby on Rails or Django, Go returns some impressive benchmarks performing 3x better. Go can scale to hundreds of thousands with relative ease, in much the same way that Erlang and Elixir scale to millions."

He's talking about raw performance where Go is much faster than Erlang and still talking about different order of magnitude to diminish Go.
As much as the elitist HR folk like to showcase the shortcomings of bitcoin, fact is that bitcoin is so much better than gold and fiat, which can be mass printed, or have you money blocked in the bank, how it happened in argentina and Greece, Cyprus, where people got a 40% haircut on their deposits over 100k, (check the inflation now in Turkey 13%) the money in the bank, you don't own them, bitcoin is at core a movement against banks, the whole argument against bitcoin is like the people were saying cars are so much worse than horses, because there are no paved roads, you need gas, maintenance, are noisy, can't scale, etc.
Are you saying that Samsung phone batteries don't go bad over time?
I was a systemd proponent until I had a hosed box. At that point I learned that alternatives are important. It made my life very difficult due to how opaque it is.

Whike problems are surmountable, rehearsing for failure is advised.
Why not both?

People would not notice drastic performance issues after doing an iOS upgrade if it was just the battery.
>Every time I read something complaining about systemd from a centralization/reducing-choices POV, I mentally replace the word "systemd" with "glibc" and check to see if the argument still holds water.

Actually, I replace systemd with *BSD. You know, the OS which has blessed core packages which are not replaceable?
Specifically in Debian 8 and Debian 9, systemd-networkd is the default used to bring up interfaces. Controlling it is very hard for any less "traditional" use cases.

On egregious settings, google is your friend. However, here are just a tiny smattering of what I had to deal with. These were dealt with over a few years of delivering and supporting systems that had to work reliably and predictably, in a supportable manner. Each line has often a significant amount of debugging time invested behind it before we came up with the line you see. $TARGET is the target install directory for the image.

This is just a small sampling of the open source build system, that I grabbed from some of the configs we used.

Yes, systemd is broken, but not irretrievably. It is fixable.

# fix some systemd timeout brokenness

sed -i 's|^#DefaultTimeoutStartSec=.*|DefaultTimeoutStartSec=15|g' ${TARGET}/etc/systemd/system.conf

sed -i 's|^#DefaultTimeoutStopSec=.*|DefaultTimeoutStopSec=15|g' ${TARGET}/etc/systemd/system.conf

sed -i 's|^#ShutdownWatchdogSec=.*|ShutdownWatchdogSec=2min|g' ${TARGET}/etc/systemd/system.conf

# fix systemd journaling. Yeah, really

sed -i 's|^#Storage=.*|Storage=persistent|g' ${TARGET}/etc/systemd/journald.conf

sed -i 's|^#SystemMaxUse=.*|SystemMaxUse=250M|g' ${TARGET}/etc/systemd/journald.conf

sed -i 's|^#RuntimeMaxUse=.*|RuntimeMaxUse=250M|g' ${TARGET}/etc/systemd/journald.conf

sed -i 's|^#ForwardToSyslog=.*|ForwardToSyslog=yes|g' ${TARGET}/etc/systemd/journald.conf

# fix the INSANE logind.conf per user directory size ... hard code it to 256M

sed -i 's|^#RuntimeDirectorySize=.*|RuntimeDirectorySize=256M|g' ${TARGET}/etc/systemd/logind.conf

#
# fix the INSANE logind.conf KillUserProcesses problem, which nukes nohup/tmux/screen ...

sed -i 's|^#KillUserProcesses=.*|KillUserProcesses=no|g' ${TARGET}/etc/systemd/logind.conf

# mask off systemd-udev-settle ... yes it is broken

chroot ${TARGET} systemctl mask systemd-udev-settle

[edited for formatting]
Thanks - that is really interesting. So Apple designed the system in a way that definitely hides deteriorating performance due to throttling from the end user? Can you point to any documentation that validates this?
>kFreeBSD

It seems dead.
You're right, it's better to establish a good relationship with your doctor.

The problem is that I seriously fear of developing complications such as blindness.

Therefore I was shocked to read that a supplement I take every day to prevent the very complications I feared, was claimed to be causing them.

I also agree with the subcomment that with chronical diseases such as T1D you're pretty much on your own after a while. Because I only go to a doctor twice a year at the most frequent. And when I go to the doctor, I get tests that allows the doctor to see if anything's wrong. If everything is alright, you're done in ten minutes.

But, as the subcommentor says, the bad feeling does not go away. I know that I'm not managing my blood sugar levels perfectly, I know that I'm not getting the perfect nutrition etc. But at least if I pop a supplement pill (omega-3 in this case), I feel like I'm doing something very benefical to my health.

Earlier this year, my vitamin D levels were extremely low, so my doctor prescribed me with supplements. After I finished taking them, I switched to a low amount of DHA.

I'm afraid of discussing these because hospitals generally view young diabetics as "fools". They think we ignore their advice and drive ourselves to doom. An eyedoctor who specializes in diabetics I recently visited told me that no one could see the development of retinopathy at early stages with the naked eye. He wanted to make a test with a laser and told me that I would not be able to see for two days. When I refused, he told me that he had seen young diabetics like me before and that we mistrust hospitals and go away and make ourselves blind. The next day I went to the same hospital to get my test results, I saw him in the corridor and he said "diabetics are very sensitive".

There are many stories I've heard like this. For example young diabetic children attributed to be thieves etc.

In light of all this stigma, I never thought of discussing these subjects with a doctor. But I'll be sure to ask for his opinion on DHA at my next visit.
I should have been more clear. I meant that it doesn't work. I get a message saying that I should use chrome. I'll get a screenshot and update here.

Here is their doc: https://get.slack.help/hc/en-us/articles/205138367-Common-is...
Artists turn Cuphead into a retro pixel classic
> What if a cartel were able to double spend one (or multiple) of the big 40 "whale" Bitcoin accounts before destroying the entire network?

I don't think 51% attacks work that way. You can't spend at all without the private keys of the whales because the network nodes won't trust the chain. If they have enough power, they can double spend their own coins by rewinding the history till the point they are spent. This is why around 6 blocks time is considered as a must to prevent double spends. In fact as the price increases the lost opportunity cost also increases (they could have just mined and gotten the reward instead of attacking). How ever, there are still players out of the net currently who don't care about the rewards and have enough hash power (governments). It's just that at this point of time they are ambivalent to the little monster that is growing up before their eyes (like a cute little dinosaur).
An inside view of a password stealer campaign – Pony/AgentTesla/FormBook
> Was it the flames of Sappho’s burning love that ultimately put her own work on the bonfire?

No, but it was still simple and pure religious fundamentalism that preferred her work disappearing (or at least not being saved), in charge once the Christianity started to dominate the Empire.
> Ie. "the world is idiots and I know better" as opposed "people have different priorities".

The point is, people who desperately need more resources on OS X for whatever reason - be it game development, video/photo editing or even using a web browser - are stuck since years on Apple. With nothing more than Chrome, Excel, Word, Slack, iTerm and Outlook running, I have all my 16GB RAM and 15GB swap usage. I actually work (as a web dev) exclusively in the terminal on a remote server via ssh, because phpStorm, Eclipse or any other IDE on the laptop plus a server environment makes it unbearably slow.

> Low-powered (suitable for laptop use) support for 32GB memory wasn't there in Intel chipsets. But not only you didn't bother to investigate, but you know better.

Laptops in the Windows area have had 32GB support since over 7 years with the release of the Dell M6500 (https://www.geek.com/chips/dell-ships-a-17-precision-m6500-l...). Apple has not even fucking tried supporting what their actual power users need, all in the name of "we have to build a laptop as thin as a feather". Yes, it would have eaten battery life - but why not do the same as the Windows manufacturers did and use a bigger battery?

Apple could have kept selling the MacBook line as low-powered/long-battery-lifed version for those who just want to look like hipsters by having a MacBook, and the MacBook Pro line as powerhorses for the mobile work force of 2017. But no, they screwed up both user groups - the hipsters get to carry a suitcase full of ugly dongles for even the most basic tasks, and the power users watch in awe at the Windows colleagues, who have a crappy OS but a machine that can literally do work.

> Or, you know, they can buy a couple of $10 USB-C cables or a $50 hub and be done with it.

I'd like to be able to plug in a USB thumb drive without a dongle that I'll lose, forget or having it loaned (aka stolen) by a coworker in less than a week. Or, Apple even removed the HDMI port, right after people started building HDMI sockets in conference rooms instead of VGA which was the norm for the latest 20 years. Thanks for having to buy yet ANOTHER dongle. Oh, and a new dongle for the keyboard, another one for the mouse, a new one for wired Ethernet... and no, docking stations are not a solution, not in a "flexible office" layout with different generations of Mac and Windows hardware.

The only thing that actually DID turn out well is that the power brick and the cable are now separate - but oh wait, the new cable can actually break instead of having it flap out elegantly... and because the plug is long instead of short and stubby like many Windows laptops have it, it's prone to cats trying to sit on it, and bending it in the process.
Thank you for your service :)

Paranoid? Just look at the last few years. Insane.
Changing careers: software dev to pen tester
Does anybody have any experience changing careers from being a software developer to a penetration tester? What was it like and are you glad you made the career change?
Wikipedia harnessed the creative commons to create a massive store of knowledge. It created a fantastic resource for topical learning. However, that resource was not created with fast and efficient sequential learning in mind. WikiBooks and Wikiversity were projects I had high hopes for, but as yet have not succeeded in the way Wikipedia has.

The meta of how to learn effectively was not something I recall ever studying in school, and only recently have focused on. It's hard because different techniques may work for some better than others, and what works for an adult may not work as well for a child.

I eagerly await the gamification of education. Books and videos can be fantastic, but are not the end-all of education. You can't just be given knowledge, you must interact with it, and use it. When I studied basic anatomy, one of the most time-effective methods I ever discovered was using anatomy apps on my phone that made a game of recall. When starting to program, I appreciated websites that included input sections and would compile and run them in-browser. I could practice what I was learning and learn from mistakes as I went. Interactivity works well.

Nowadays I use Anki (https://apps.ankiweb.net/) on my PC and phone, following Wozniak's Rules of Formulating Knowledge (https://www.supermemo.com/en/articles/20rules) when creating my own study decks. I really like using decks created collaboratively by the community, that correspond to an external resource like a textbook. There is power in connecting books and videos to interactive methods of learning like Anki and others. What resources can be synergistically used together in a time-efficient way?

I hope this project curates and collates not just books and video sources but also interactive methods of learning. The idea of using the collaborative commons to create an entire system is intriguing. I hope the concept of valuing resources by time spent and efficiency gets more attention.
Using GANs for 'mind-reading'  (reconstructing what somebody is seeing)
The callback gets a timestamp as an argument, so audio sync is easy to compensate for if you’re doing it systematically. (Plus 1/60 second is well within human perception, when it comes to audio/video synchronization.)

I think the bigger concern is latency between HID input and visual feedback, which people are more sensitive to, and which you can’t schedule in advance for.
They're not literally cut in half; the arrays are designed with "jumpers" to disable blocks. But the capacity is halved, so that's why the 64GB dies become 32GB, 16GB, or 8GB cards. (the dies live again!)
Gem5: simulator is a modular platform for computer-system architecture research
Just because it's not an endless resouce doesn't mean it's a muscle. Your liver isn't an endless resource.
A lot of friendly fire among the HN crowd. "Make go boom" appears to be our goal.
You cannot build a botnet large enough to out-hash the army of dedicated ASICs that's responsible for todays' Bitcoin hash rate. Not even a botnet that merges all personal computers in the world would be able to do that - ASICs are just that much faster.

But - some miners and mining pool operators are rumored to be among the bigger Bitcoin whales themselves. They already own (or at least control) a large part of the ASIC hashing power. None of them is even close to 51% today, but then you also don't really need 51% to pull off a double-spend attack, 30-40% should do it, as long as you pull that hashing power from the legit network at the same time. A cartel made up of the top miners and mining pool owners should be able to comfortably reach this critical mass of hash power. So effectively it comes down to whether they assume that it's better for them financially to continue supporting the networks' health or to pull a one-time heist, destroying the networks' credibility in the process. For the moment, the former seems to be still true. But nobody knows for sure whether that may change some day...
Maybe you could compare old posts against the mean at the time.

E.g X standard deviations above the average = score.
So book burning is something humans have always done.

Hopefully we don't pass on our primitive traits to refuse reality to our AI.

History shouldnt be written by the winners. History should be the truth.
Hopefully, with an AWS offering, this could give an impetus to widespread adoption. A lot of great ideas are simply left dormant because of network effects.
He can't be thrown out. Facebook issues special classes of share so that Zuckerberg can never lose control of the company.

https://www.economist.com/news/business/21729813-multiple-cl...
I believe 360 for angles came from 365 days in a year.
Your points seem mostly logically separate from those in the article. (You may have extrapolated too much from the title.)
The author is arguing that Nike and other high-profile brands will move to direct-to-consumer sales rather than using intermediate wholesalers. But he explicitly includes Nike-branded brick-and-mortar shops as an example of this shift. He's not arguing on brick-and-mortar vs. online.