skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How does this differ from anything or anyone. Is Trump any less greedy? Are the clintons any less greedy? Is Bloomberg any less sinister?

What's starting to look sinister is the daily "facebook is evil" propaganda by the media.
Newer GDBs have native support; Visual Studio (not Code, but also Code)'s debugger works too (we generate pdb files). Older gdbs and lldb can use a plugin/script.
It's the same with Bill Gates but nobody's doubting he's rich.
Yeah man, finally a usable Flexbox cheat sheet :D
> Reducing maintenance cost and more room for other improvements, I see no need to justify this reasoning at all

Yeah, see, that's the thing: you're making a pretty big fallacy assuming that the costs of providing overnight service actually impact maintenance work in any meaningful way.

As it turns out, overnight service is relatively inexpensive to provide, and temporary disruptions to evening or weekend service for maintenance (which already happen) are sufficient to address most maintenance problems that can't be handled during working hours. Cutting overnight service wouldn't solve the problems that are actually preventing the maintenance that's needed.

I'm not going to bother to go into more specifics, because they're well documented, not just in this comment thread but also the exact original article. If you're interested, those are both excellent places to start.
The premise of "The Three Body Problem" is that the fastest way to make a technological leap is to find another species that has already developed the technology. Even seeing what can be done would make a huge impact. China's effort in the article parallels what happens in the book. Surprising that they don't mention this when talking about the motivations of billionaires and nation-states.
Fodor died recently and this is a good essay. I got the link from
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/postscript/jerry-fodors-en....
Negative. The status quo has been neoliberalism.
nautilus was the first publishing company that I subscribed to... Although I feel bad for the company, I feel worse to have given money to an organization whose owner is gambling the livelihoods of their employees.
For anyone looking for a DS primer, I have to say I was really disappointed with "Data Science from Scratch". It was all breadth with little depth. It felt more like a suggested list of topics to further research w/ other material.

I personally got way more value and insight out of "Data Science for Business" and would highly recommend it.
Related: How is the job and freelancing / contracting market for F#? I've been looking into it lately, and liking it. F# code is pretty concise, still readable, and it is not FP-only, supports OOP too (per what I read).
In my sphere, it's actually adults that play these games the most. My kids love physical loot boxes (like blind bags and card booster packs), but they aren't really interested in the digital stuff.

I was just thinking about this this morning, because I think of them as targeting kids too, but the real junkies I know are grownups.
> It's remarkable that there is data about the outcomes of billions of lives, but we still have only vague indications about which behaviors lead to which outcomes.

Do you really find that remarkable or is that just hyperbole? The fact that its so difficult to do controlled experiments - the holy grail of science - in this area in tandem with the fact that these are almost invariably complex systems we're dealing with makes it such that its not that surprising to me that we are still as confused as we are.
As others have replied/posted, the concept is not unlike email. And considering the billions of people who use email - and many who at least numerous times in their lifetime have switched email addresses - this hasn't stopped adoption of email over time, right?
> A wealth store/transfer platform that does require armies to protect its "banks", as they are distributed/global, does not encourage wars.

Sure it does. It uses an insane amount of power. Wars are fought over the resources to generate that power all the time. You could argue that the governments of the world are indirectly subsidizing crypto by using war to maintain a stable source of energy. With no government around to protect the river that powers the hydro dam, or acquire the oil / coal required for the power plants, what is gonna power these blockchains? Solar? Who makes the solar panels? That requires trade... who structures that trade? Government.

Sorry. Bitcoin, nor any blockchain, cannot function without the all mighty government.
Thanks for your elaborate comment. It is interesting to read and insightful. I just have comments for select sections:

>> I don't consider it important to be able to compile Rust to JavaScript

> We share this opinion, but compiling to WebAssembly is a whole different ballgame.

If I understand correctly, WebAssembly is essentially the same as JavaScript, and therefore something I'd like to avoid. I do not want random executable code from websites, that my browser then automatically executes. I don't think sandboxing is a solution, because it's an inherently impossible problem. Externally controlled and unaccaunted executable code is _always_ bad. Instead, let's fix some restricted non-turing complete markup language, like HTML, and stay with that. It's an optimal solution.

Maybe, probably, I'm missing something here, but JavaScript and WebAssembly seem to be things that are not in the interest of users.

>> There are scenarios where rustup and cargo are not acceptable. Is this on the radar?

> It's hard to say without knowing more details of what exactly you mean; distros are already packaging Rust and libraries, for example. In general though, this is a thing we've put a ton of effort to in the past, and I expect to have even more in the future.

Cargo and Rustup seem to be in competition to the existing package management systems. Why not integrate rust and the libraries into the existing packagement systems, like so many other software projects do? How is Cargo and rustup better than Apt?

Also, Apt is perfectly usable without internet. One can download the entire Debian archive to a hard drive and use it without any external connections. How would I do that with Cargo and Rustup? This is just one point. There are so many scenarios Apt already has solutions for, that Cargo and Rustup probably didn't even consider yet.

Anyhow, clearly this issue is noted and even already worked on. That's more I could ask for.

Another thing I forgot to mention is IDE support. I read that Rust is now supposedly supported in Gnome Builder, but I see no option to create a Rust project. This is not the responsibility of the Rust team, and it's just an anecdote, but it affects Rust and it's usage and growth.
How Tech Expanded from Silicon Valley to Bubblegum Alley
Lispchain: A blockchain sketch written in Common Lisp (with a useful PoW)
And you'll still be using them when you're 80.
The batteries handle the load just fine until they start wearing out around 500 cycles.
I don't feel that it's in more poor form than the solution suggested in the article:

for i := 0; i < 3; i++ {
defer func(i int) {
fmt.Println(i)
}(i)
}

This shadows `i` pretty much the same amount as what I wrote. If `i` gets a different name inside the lambda, then it'd also be worse because then you could accidentally use `i` still.
Not all of these protests or nationalism were organic, they were engineered by Russia. ex) Brexit

There is increasing number of evidence that points to the ex-KGB officer now leading a nuclear armed 2.5 world country.

If they can pull one on the US, the rest of Eastern Europe, or frankly any country facing an authoritarian government will face this new 'hybrid war'--combining cyberattacks, psy-ops on social media and backing separatists in the said country.

I fear for both of my countries Korea and Canada as they are on the trajectory of colliding with Russian & Chinese interests...and we cannot even trust the US while it's going through an internal conflict.

We've collectively realized just how powerful these social media platform is....people are heads down on their smartphones consuming low-dopamine hits that eventually overrides critical thinking.

I also think that Facebook and Twitter are going to be facing a political and legal uphill battle once the establishment has thoroughly finished analyzing exactly step by step what happened.

Honesty, regardless of his outside image, Putin is sweating. Instead of lifting sanctions he's earned the exact opposite. Instead of keeping former soviet blocs in check he scared them to the arms of US & Nato. This unrest he caused will fade as the US media ramps up their own psy-ops against Putin.

I will go far as to predict that the Russian Federation will be broken into multiple countries in the near future as their economy is destroyed by the West....with China picking up scraps and benefiting greatly from the brain drain.
Populous Semitechnical Primer
OP: My guess (anecdotal only) is that the market for .NET in India at least, should be good. Based on reading and talking to a few friends who work on it. Indian companies (except for startups) tend to adopt more of mainstream technologies, though that may be changing slowly, so Java and .NET (and other tech like Oracle, MS SQL Server, etc.) are popular.
Except, the millions of gold holders (including in jewelry, etc) around the world can transact among each other at any time.

Bitcoin can handle 3-7 transactions per second.
You would also worry about be shoot when you walk on the street at night.
You would also worry be bombed when you attend some concert, taking subway.
Yes, you have your choice, and the other people also have their choice.
I actually like the pocket integration: these days more than. >50% of what I read, I read though pocket. Anything interesting is saved to pocket and read there. Pocket really makes the Internet a lot more readable, and I applaud Mozilla for recognising that, and making that as easy as possible.

Regarding the I robot thing, I must be living under a rock, had not heard of it before today. Storm in a glass of water.
If the phone OS was open source there would be no need for all the conjecture, black box research and revelations, all of this would have been available knowledge
Yep, totally get what you're driving at here.

To the extent that you're asking about product differentiation: scale, eta, and price are reasons people choose one over the other.

To the extent that you're keen on punishing people who have behaved badly in order to disincentivize future bad behavior, good on you, that seems reasonable. I think it's hard to draw the line as to where this is actually useful/practical, and obviously it'll be a different line for different people. I'd guess that you're not boycotting every other startup that Benchmark has put early money into, for example.
I have only been in US for two weeks in my life, so I don't really know much about this. But different countries are different, people living in them value different things, and they optimize their lives for different values.

So, may be it's a national character of people living in this country, and an attempt to make it more like other counties with other cultures may be a little misplaced?
You know that recent "pill shaped" craft that the F-18 pilot saw in the Pacific Ocean?

What I don't understand is why it seems NOBODY is asking about DIVING beneath where it was hovering. If you read the more detailed account of the encounter (not the NYT article), the pilot clearly describes that the craft was hoving above the water.

Why not dive straight down where it was hoving and see if there's something special down there? I mean, maybe it was hovering there for a reason?
Fully agree with this. I know people who were developing 3G/4G base stations at Ericsson, and as they say: the only right way to check if implementation is correct - to test if your phone connects to it or not.
Remember it wasn't until someone ran benchmarks before and after replacing their battery that apple decided to let the world know this was a thing.
> People who can delay gratification are likely those who have the means to do so to begin with.

What kind of means? Psychological means? Delayed gratification implies that the object of one's desire is not a staple of life. Therefore delayed gratification works to one's favor if they are limited by finances or time. This whole thing sounds like a water is wet argument to me.
> People who can delay gratification are likely those who have the means to do so to begin with.

You're saying this after reading that researchers gave 5-year-olds marshmallows and told them they would get a second one if they waited for 15 mins instead of eating it? Because the kids who delayed their marshmallow gratification "are likely those who have the means to begin with"?
He mentions Cloudflare and AWS, but most new startups will be overwhelmed by the complexity of the initial setup of an edge architecture. However, there is a new generation of startups that are moving to automate the setup of edge architectures, so that future startups can take the edge for granted, in the same way that AWS lets them take web servers for granted. I'm thinking of companies such as Mutable: https://blog.mutable.io/mutable-the-paas-solution-for-5g-edg...
Ask HN: Do you think open source social networking can take off?
I just signed up for Diaspora* again, after seeing the article about Mastodon on the front page, but I suspect I'll just use it to cross post to Facebook. There are many reasons a centralized business (eg Facebook) that everyone is already on will squash stuff like Diaspora from ever taking off (latter is more complicated to start with, inherently less capable of attracting users in first place, etc.). Do you think there is any strategy/way a decentralized and open social media platform can ever take off? It just seems like the way things should be... but most likely will never be.
There's no tech that specifically gets people to do the right thing. There's tech that might make people do things but that tech can be harnessed to get people to do either right or wrong things.
> Exactly, an elected position would come with even more publicity, actual responsibilities and the possibility of being held accountable for his actions.

Having full control of the platform a large portion of the population depends on for news and communication could help him evade much of that.
If it's like stocks, I reckon you can specify which lot is getting sold. That was one of the things up for debate under the GOP proposed tax reforms. FIFO requirement for sales didn't make it into the final bill.

This is the best resource I have found at a quick search. The answer is simply it depends on how you setup your cost basis.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/a/averagecostbasismethod....
> I'm acutely aware of how much does or does not go into textures. Modern shaders can account for as much as half of rendering time, with tracing of rays accounting for the other half. This is the entire shader, not just textures and is an extreme example.

At least at VFX level (Pixar's slightly different, as they use a lot of procedural textures), Texture I/O time can be a significant amount of render time.

> This is not true at all. Render farm nodes are typically built with memory to CPU core ratios that match as the main priority.

I don't know what you mean by this (I assume that memory scales with cores?), but most render farms at high level have extremely expensive fast I/O caches very close to the render server nodes (usually Avere solutions) mainly just for the textures.

The raw source textures are normally of the order of hundreds of gigabytes and thus have to be out-of-core. Pulling them off disk, uncompressing them and filtering them (even tiled and pre-mipped) is extremely expensive.

> This is also not true. In 1995 an Onyx with a maximum of 32 _Sockets_ had a maximum of 2GB of memory. The bandwidth to PCIe 3.0 16x is about 16GB/s and plenty of cards already have 16GB of memory. The textures would also stay in memory for multiple frames, since most textures are not animated.

This is true. One of the reasons why GPU renderers still aren't being used at high-level VFX in general is precisely because of both memory limits (once you go out-of-core on a GPU, you might as well have stayed on the CPU) and due to PCI transfer costs of getting the stuff onto the GPU.

On top of that, almost all final rendering is still done on a per-frame basis, so for each frame, you start the renderer, give it the source scene/geo, it then loads the textures again and again for each different frame - precisely why fast Texture caches are needed.
You can do both, show the warning and implement performance limiting. The information would be nice (if not outright essential/ethical)
AFAICT, the guy went a little too far out of his way to say that lots of rape accusations are fake? But the guy still has job and status, right? Just some social ostracism?
Can you name a few? All the ones I can think of are academic and still require you to recompile all applications when the OS targets a newer compiler.
clion, atom(not sure), visual code support debugging
While that may be true, defaults matter too. Even as a privacy conscious techie it's possible to forget the X different settings one must change with each new install or device.

And for some dissidents or researchers those defaults could be life or career ending.
I'm surprised Uber is funding general AI research given their reported financial situation.
Even on my iPhone I can’t browse CNN while simultaneously listening to music or the radio (iPlayer). Even though the videos are silent until clicked, they still take over the audio. Gets me every time!
Yes, and have a look at the overlap(familial, spouses, etc) between people in Obama's administration and the media: https://www.snopes.com/you-had-a-hunch-the-news-system-was-r...

It doesn't imply outright bias but it certainly seems like an unlikely co-incidince.
Pretty sure this was after Civ 1, when you'd lose a battleship to a spearman surprisingly often. Been a while since I've played Civ 2, don't think there was the concept of cumulative damage, yet, but there was by Civ 3. Definitely seems "fairer". Sure a spearman can possibly damage a battleship, but unlikely to destroy one.

Also, it's Sid Meier.
And Apple is balancing the battery's voltage level with the CPU utilization for optimal reliability of the device.
The GPL anticipated this sort of thing which is why it required not just the source code to be released but all the build scripts and ancillary documentation required to actually use the source code. If they didn't incorporate anyone else's GPL code then they aren't in breach but its still a bait and switch.
The Light L16 – brilliant and braindead
Bubbles can be a fantastic way to generate wealth. Amass as much cash as possible, wait for the inevitable crash (you can't time this so just be prepared for when it does happen), and then buy tons of assets for pennies on the dollar. If you truly believe in the fundamental value of the frothy asset, this approach can be a huge win. Obviously, this should not be your primary investment strategy but it worked well for me (e.g. doubled the value of my stock portfolio in 2009 and doubled the square footage of my bay area home in 2010).
I think 'strcat' refers to the handle of a person the author is talking to, and not the system call.
I switched to Firefox, and I was blown away to find that Google Meet (the new Hangouts) does not work. You just get the message "Meet doesn't work on your browser".

I'm also impressed at how many of my job's internal websites don't work. This doesn't bug me as much, but it's obvious the devs who created them didn't even do a sanity check in Firefox.
So I take this is at least the second shot ? damn fuzzy memory
What could be more powerful than a US president who also happens to have direct control of a large portion of the world's communications and information consumption?
Here are the logic levels in standard VHDL:

https://www.cs.sfu.ca/~ggbaker/reference/std_logic/1164/std_...

Maybe some of those can be multiplexed to create Ternary chips with todays tools?
1) I don't agree that a CEO's job is "selling the product". That's literally the job of the sales team. But that doesn't really matter.

2) It is obviously the apex of bad optics. My initial point is to demonstrate that the position that "You just shouldn't police beliefs, period" isn't founded in reality. Obviously you should. No one will defend the CEO of Bread Co.

Since we've established at the apex of bad optics that removal is permitted, the rest of the discussion isn't about whether or not removal is an option, it is a discussion of where along the spectrum of bad optics should it be permissible to remove an executive.

This makes the honest question to be explored "When should you police beliefs". At that stage of discussion, the context that we're complaining about removing matters. It doesn't at the level I'm criticizing.
Fiction: The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

Nonfiction: The Banker's New Cloths by Anat Admati and Martin Hellwig

Full list: https://www.goodreads.com/user/year_in_books/2017/63629672
I'm really amused / shocked by the amount of people here that feel "awkward" or "bothered" in meetings with someone dressed in business casual versus jeans and a t shirt.

I work at a startup in NYC and most of us are dressed very casually, but a few people do dress up / more nicely (especially those that used to work in finance and at those at the C-level). You know how much that bothers people at my company? Not at all. I've never heard it brought up once.

The clothes someone is wearing barely enters my mind at all when I'm conversing / working with them. If the way someone dresses is bothering you and your coworkers to the point of social friction, I seriously suggest you look inwards to see what the problem is.

The irony/hypocrisy in SV is too much to handle sometimes.
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> But here's a thought: WebKit and Chromium (and Blink) are open source, so maybe don't worry about it?

How could Stylo have happened if WebKit/Chromium/Blink were the only browser engines? Do you think WebKit is likely to accept Rust code into the tree?

Futhermore, WebKit and Blink have substantial divergence at this point. They are not the same browser engine. Do you think that Safari and Chrome should adopt the same engine? If so, why do you think that will be more successful than the last time they tried that, which ended in a fork?
If you enjoyed Outliers (or are thinking about reading it), I'd suggest reading Peak (in addition to, but also instead of).

https://www.amazon.com/Peak-Secrets-New-Science-Expertise/dp...
Uh, people do. Hardcore lotto players know which scratch offs have the best payouts and know the most efficient betting strategies for most games. Some of them even track the outstanding jackpot winners available. Look at what people buy when you're in a gas station.

Disclosure would probably reduce the temptation to offer really shitty odds.
I stopped playing Clash Royale despite finding it a wonderful game because it's essentially pay to win. I would love to play a game similar to that one where the odds aren't stacked against the poorest of the players. Where you can play against players who have the same character choices as you.
> They blatantly ignore standards, the most obvious of which is their treatment of autocomplete=off in forms[1]. They broke the ability to disable autocomplete, and since then have been intentionally breaking workarounds people find to actually turn off autocomplete. This has been a major pain in the butt at work.

My solution to that is simple. I have a microservice that tells my services how to get autocomplete=off automatically. This microservice determines the required values and ids by scraping the search box on google.com every hour, and extracting the values of the tag matching input[name=q].

That way I can fully automate autocomplete=off, and ensure it works.