skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think his point was we don't need to know beforehand where the waste is happening. The funding cuts will force them (the spenders) to figure that out.

What exactly are you afraid of, if we reduce the funding for US military by 90%? Fewer regime changes? Fewer regional conflicts? Fewer civil wars? Because US definitely has been behind some of those in the post Cold War era. What exactly is happening in the international arena, that wouldn't be happening without US interference?

P.S. You don't think there's waste? How about trillions of dollars spent on Iraq/Afganistan invasion, that ultimately led to destabilization of the entire region, deaths and destruction on a massive scale, and emergence of ISIS as a major source and inspiration of countless current and future terrorists worldwide?
Related, I just shared that Microsoft is going to make the mitigations for Windows Server optional https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16108356

This should make it very clear that other vendors downplaying the performance impact were misleading users.
Too easy to misinterpret as KODA Koin.

Brand guidelines are important especially at a company like Kodak.
Given that there is no known mechanism, characterizing it as "the opposite of speculative" seems rather naive.
A self driving car would have stopped, as it is illegal to pass a stopped school bus.
Learning C++ Isn't Difficult, Teaching Is the Trick [Christopher Di Bella]
Show HN: A project to help beginners get started on contributing to open source
One big reason I drive as little as possible is specifically because it's dangerous to everyone around me, even though I believe myself to be a cautious driver.

40,000 deaths a year in the United States, top cause of death in every age group to 1 to 44 (killing someone with your car counts as "unintentional injury" in the CDC's reporting) is an ongoing moral tragedy of huge dimensions.

So sure, life can never be "risk free" but to equate that with the total carnage and destruction on the road, is frankly evil.
Something like this already exists: https://www.ascribe.io/ # I had to use it to submit some photos to a call for work a couple of years ago. After the call I wanted to delete the work, because I didn't want it hanging around in public view. Oh look! You can't! Because It's blockchain!

Immutable history is not always a compelling requirement, in fact sometimes it is at odds with many a use case.
>Get in on the ground floor

To all those wondering where the value added is, there is none. If you want to know how they solve the oracle problem, they don’t. This is a pyramid scheme, they even use the marketing language word for word.
Is your stock down? Don't worry, create or invest in a cryptocoin and profit...It's cheaper than a stock buyback.
Rust has affine types, but not true linear types. Some people refer to both kinds as "linear", as there's not a ton of difference, but in another perspective, there is a ton of difference. https://gankro.github.io/blah/linear-rust/
Rust is pretty much based around linear types (well I think technically it's a variant of that, I have heard about "affine types", don't know the difference), more precisely the move semantics.

EDIT: Oh, the expert has spoken while I was writing. See steveklabnic's answer !
Tim O'Reilly: What’d I miss? (in the book)
Yeah, if the child had been 7yo rather than 4yo one rather suspects he would have been accused of riding a bicycle, putting him firmly beyond the pale of what a driver in a hurry should have to worry about...
I don't understand how you conclude that Google is everywhere whereas Facebook is only on Facebook.com. I'm not disagreeing that Google is everywhere, but I'd argue that so is Facebook. Are you making this distinction mainly because of Android and its market share? From the privacy angle, Facebook is also on Instagram, WhatsApp (this to a limited extent) and on most websites that use Facebook for comments and/or have Facebook Like buttons.

I don't have links right now, but I've read that Facebook also engages and buys data from large online tracking and profiling companies.
Aren't Rust's lifetimes closely related to linear types?

If so, they are changing the world already.
I think you could say that. Another way to look at it would be to say it's about organising your code in such a way that side-effects don't really matter. For instance, if only I have access to a reference, then I'm free to update it without risk of disrupting anyone else's world view. You could say that there is no side-effect from my update because no-one can observe the change.

This is nice for functional programming because it gives you the performance of mutable state and destructive update, but in a way that is 'pure', or side-effect free, from the outside.
The case for learned index structures – Part II
Ask HN: How do I pay taxes on crypto/token trading
From what I have read and can assume, in the USA trades between tokens should be treated as tax events to apply short/long term capital gains and not like-kind exchanges - tax should be paid immediately (current tax cycle), rather than when exchanged back to fiat.

Does anyone have any useful resources or authoritative info & suggestions on how to go about calculating and reporting taxes on crypto and ethereum tokens?

Thank you in advance.
May be.Really, In the current scenario, you can't like avoid any implicit bias, like even if you don't mean it. That's why in my comment, I didn't explicitly comment on Ripple's product or team.

Also, a bet is one thing, but the get rich quick scheme going on in the market with new investors is another. I still hold some Ripple if that breaks any bias, and I think the correction was unavoidable.
They didn't say anything was wrong with that, they said it used to be the only option. Now there's other options.
"Chasing a frisbee" should never put one at risk of death. The fault isn't with you; it's with the driver (going too fast to stop for a running child) and the traffic engineer (built an unsafe street next to housing / parks / etc.).
Singapour has put cameras everywhere and has a very low crime rate as a consequence. While I don't want to live in such a society the model certainly seems to work.
Euphoria and bounded rationality... People see Crypto + Public Traded Company and they lose their shit. Especially true for a company that has struggled so much to compete in the market for the last 15 years...
It can be listed as "natural flavor" http://nagaseamerica.com/news_release/treha-trehalose-availa...
Most effects are small if you sample general population randomly. However, if you make a survey among basketball players, asking them for their height, you're going to find an extremely large effect. And in fact, birth order effect seem to be common wisdom too.
"I knew I had made the right choice to stay out of cryptocurrencies when my taxi driver launched an ICO." -- Warren Buffet, sometime in the future
Yeah there is guy in Russia (well, Crimea) that named his son Bitcoin.

We are there.

https://finmedia.net/zhitel-simferopolya-nazval-sy-na-bitkoi...
I think that the lesson of the article is not that weirdos or strangers make the world a dangerous and ugly place, but that we, the regular people who vote for and move to areas with zoning densities that make public transit impractical, who commute long distances in cars, make the world a dangerous and ugly place.

Every time we get into a car, we are choosing to take a risk not only with our own life, but with the lives of everyone else near the road. I mean, we kind of choose that by continuing to live in areas where our density makes public transit less practical, but there's a lot to be said for just taking the responsibility of driving a lot more seriously, and treating driving as something risky, and taking steps to drive less.
Microsoft reveals how Spectre updates can slow your PC down
Somebody was really rushed to publish this. I mean good lord the site they link to https://www.kodakcoin.com/ still has lipsum and what I can only assume are placeholder photos. Unless Jan Denecke really is a man of many faces.

Edit: Oh my god the background is an Adobe stock photo complete with watermark.

Edit2: No, Kodak you don't get to just take the site down. The internet never forgets. https://imgur.com/a/LtI2s
> I have heard about "affine types", don't know the difference

Linear types: must be used exactly once

Affine types: can't be used more than once
Piggybacking off popular cryptocurrencies has its own risks[1].

[1] https://blockchain.info/unconfirmed-transactions
"Peakcoin is a peer-to-peer Internet currency that enables instant, near-zero cost payments to anyone in the world."

So there's a coin called Peakcoin. Real lack of awareness in the branding.
I have this weird perception that Microsoft is directed by incompetent idiots in suits. Every product they release is half-assed, the only thing keeping them alive is the momentum they've gained from Windows.

Instead, I feel like there are really smart people in the rest of the companies, even considering that some of them have evil intentions.
And then they'll all fail, and people will again realize that simply appending ".com" or "blockchain" isn't actually a miraculous panacea. Meanwhile, legitimate uses of ".com" and "blockchain" will still continue to develop and grow.
>Discriminating against someone for their political beliefs is not illegal

In Cali it is. These laws were enacted in the 30/40s when people were blacklisted for being Commies.

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySectio...
https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySectio...

It would be interesting if this goes to the supreme court and the conservative court rules these laws unconstitutional on freedom of association grounds.
Apple > Amazon > Google > Facebook

? Microsoft ?

Apple is a hardware and cloud company. Their incentive is to get you to buy phones and computers and lock you into their ecosystem. Some shameful behavior, but nothing that's not to be expected. Trustworthy, but in need of the occasional reprimanding.

Amazon is a middle man company. They connect sellers to buyers and interact with you to get you to use their platform. Over the past ten years they've dipped into a bunch of other markets as well, but I don't think it's affected why they collect information so far. Untrustworthy, minorly invasive, but not malicious. Yet.

Google wants to know everything about you so they can profit from your data when selling advertisements, and do so by inserting themselves into everything you do. Your calendar, your email, your browser; any place where they can squeeze in a call to their servers. Untrustworthy and highly invasive, but not malicious.

Facebook, like Google, wants to know everything about you so they can sell that data to advertisers. But whereas Google attempts to integrate itself into your natural flow of life, Facebook tries to change your behavior so that you interact with it more often. Facebook actually wants to control you. Untrustworthy, highly invasive, and malicious.

Microsoft is in the process of reinventing itself and it's too early to tell what sort of trust it will deserve, if any. But I don't think anyone is preaching optimism.
Kubernetes Is a 10 Ton Dump Truck That Handles Pretty Well at 200 MPH
They either make something people (readers or advertisers or sponsors) will pay for or they go out of business. That's pretty normal. I don't see why it's so important to prop up a specific failing business model. There are other models.
After Hours: “Off-peak” lifestyle evangelists insist on value of being untimely
I'm changing my rap name to MC Blockchain, watch me get a 20 million dollar advance from Sony Music lmfao.
> I think the pain of loss was just as severe, and the past was just more miserable than we think.

Why would the pain be equivalent, despite the vastly different context: life experiences and expectations, cultural details, worldviews, etc?

To be clear, there are many aspects/phases to the pain of loss. I can imagine that the initial suffering may be very similar, but that the integration/processing of the event in subsequent months and years be significantly different.

That's not to say that, overall, it wasn't worse back then, but I'm guessing the pain from a single loss event might be noticeably different due to the vastly different context.
>> It depends on whether the incompetent male engineers are just as incompetent as the incompetent female engineers. For instance, she mentioned a female developer who couldn't write SQL queries. Are the incompetent male developers at that same level of incompetence?

Oh yes. Especially if you work in, say, a big financial corporation- the kind of large, monolithic organisation that isn't a technology company, per se, but uses technology (as only a large monolith would). In that kind of place, you can expect the majority of "technical" employees to be largely uninterested in, and therefore fairly clueless about, technology (i.e. they're just in it to jump over to tech management roles down the line). So, software engineers who can't write SQL queries are a thing. A common, inescepable fact of life, indeed.

I would not like to say whether I'm speaking of personal experience with such organisations. It wouldn't be proper.
"By clothing color, etc. " I wonder what's in the etc. Age, sex, skin color, religion, tattoos, walking pace, gait, facial recognition ?
>“You know, you’ll never hear somebody on their deathbed saying, ‘I wish I’d spent more time in the office.’

I personally agree with this sentiment and am striving towards a better work life balance, but there is at least one person who has apparently said that:

"I have only one regret... that I have not worked harder." - Henry Royce (of Rolls-Royce) - https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Henry_Royce

edit: yes yes, harder != longer
Dell Alienware 13 (Late 2017) review: A flawed gaming laptop I love to bits
Injuring someone that badly for a "bad call" means you were going too fast around pedestrians. There doesn't have to be a mitigating factor for you to be in the wrong, even if the pedestrian made a mistake.

We should all be safe to make mistakes trying to walk somewhere without risk of serious injury or death from our fellow road users.
Mine don't play in FF. I think you can disable this via:
media.autoplay.enabled

type about:config in url and set value to false
They're rich because they have a large organization capable of carrying out organized crime. They're also do extortion, kidnapping, pimping, and anything else they can think of to make money.
It's a sad commentary on capitalism that two of the richest people in history (Bezos and Walton) companies treat many of their employees like shit.
SQL Operations Studio as Monitoring Dashboard
I think SSA is related to CPS, but I'm not sure of the correspondence with Linearity. I think the key difference (but I'm not sure), is that SSA only asserts that a variable is assigned once, but might be consumed multiple times. Linearity says that things must be consumed exactly once. For instance, I think:

y <- x + 1

z <- x + 2

is a legal SSA expression, but it is not a legal linear expression because x appears twice.

(Corrections welcome)
> I have heard about "affine types", don't know the difference

A value with a linear type is used exactly once. A value with an affine type is used at most once. In other words, both types prevent double-use of single-use resources, but linear types additionally guarantee no leaks of said resources.

True linear types are far less common in practice, because in order to prove that a value is actually consumed, you have to prove that the program doesn't go into an infinite loop first. Which, y'know, good luck with that.
Software Vulnerabilities, Disclosure, and Marketing
Absolutely fantastic talk. Thanks for posting this. It certainly helps put recent developments into perspective.
There are two John Wick movies that demonstrate the height of revenge fantasies over a dead dog. :)
> Immutable history is not always a compelling requirement, in fact sometimes it is at odds with many a use case.

Good point. Perhaps the technology will account for this somehow, and thus be distinguishable in some way from other blockchain technologies . . . ?
>NEVER leave your children unattended even for a moment. In this case, the parent was right beside the cart, moving groceries from the cart to the conveyor belt.

Never? Come on, how far are we going to take this? Not sending them to school so you can stay home and watch for kidnappers? Never sending them to grandpa's house because grandpa might bring the kids to the grocery store and turn around for a second to pick up some carrots?

Perspective! Assuming that its not a fabricated story the risk of this sort of kidnapping is so incredibly low it might as well be zero. This sort of anxiety about it is unhealthy and unproductive. Never bring them outside because a stranger may snatch them out of a stroller? If you go to the grocery store your going to turn away for a quarter of a second to grab something off the shelf, it's a fact of life.

Relax.

One of the biggest risk to children is car crashes. In which case an equally ridiculous but much much better piece of advice is "NEVER allow your children to ride in an automobile."
Hm, so what about all the places with a plethora of cameras (convenience stores, for example) that still get robbed?
Yet, Cargill suggests it can be added to many foods: https://www.cargill.com/food-bev/emea/sweeteners/treha

Bakery:
- Baked goods
- Flavor enhancement
- Sweetness optimization texture
- Crystallization inhibition

Beverages:
- Mouthfeel
- Flavor enhancement
- Mild sweetness

Confectionery:
- Flavor enhancement
- Shelf life
- Crystallization inhibition

Frozen Foods:
- Stability
- Cryoprotectant
- Taste enhancement

Dairy:
- Ice-cream
- Texture
- Spoonability

Dairy desserts:
- Flavor enhancement
- Moisture stabilization
- Texture

Fruit:
- Sweetness optimization
- Stability
- Shelf life
- Color preservation

Tablets:
- Compression agent
- Excipient
- Non-hygroscopicity
- Stabilization
EC2 Network Performance Overview
One caveat: Bezos is the richest out of people that we can get an accurate and publicly available estimate of their wealth. It doesn't count people like Vladimir Putin because we don't actually know how much he's worth- but many suspect that it could be more than 100 billion. It also doesn't count families, such as the House of Saud, which has several members worth over 10 billion, and the entire family might be worth over a trillion.

http://fortune.com/2017/07/29/vladimir-putin-russia-jeff-bez...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Saud
Sorry, I can't parse this. Are you saying that until we have a complete understanding of how the brain and mind work, all psychological research is essentially worthless?
That's true to a point. If ad targeting gets too good, users "find this creepy" and start using more ad blocking. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Targeted_advertising#Controver...
Companies behind Top 99 Cryptocurrencies
CheatBook-DataBase 2018 Free Download for Windows and MAC
How does this correlates with weather?
2017 in Review and Looking Ahead to 2018 – Oracle Solaris Blog (Solaris 11.4)
Haha, you caught that moments before they replaced it with a "we'll be online within 24 hours' message.
> Embedding hundreds of iframes into existing pages isn't a viable solution.

I know I'm repeating myself, but then let's standardize a better way to solve the problem without executing supplied code. JavaScript is not a magic bullet that solves problems that aren't solveable otherwise.
Survey shares strong/weak points of Kubernetes
Why is it worse to phone home and synchronize with a central authority than to phone home and synchronize with a blockchain?
SQL Server Index Backward Scan: Understanding, Tuning
Can we just at some point admit that we inevitably will lose people in accidents and that the trade off is just not worth it?
Microsoft disables Windows Update when Meltdown/Spectre registry key isn't set
CoinMarketCap is in a tough position here.

I can obviously understand not wanting to list massive outliers in an average, but at the same time there isn't realistically a way for them to "safely" adjust which exchanges they include in the averages.

No matter what, it's either going to cause big sudden jumps in either direction, or they can "smear" it across some time, which (in my opinion) would look really bad as it would imply sustained increase or decrease.

Giving advance notice should be expected of them, but I honestly don't know if they gave one or not, and I don't really think that many people would have read it if they did.
I’ll violate my usual practice of not commenting explaining the reason for downvotes, to say this:

Preemptive comments of this type, which reflect the posters hostile prejudgement of the likely responses, are IMO, contrary to the letter and spirit of the HN guidelines including the rule of presumption of good faith, frequently (as in this case) involve preemptive violations of the guideline against commenting on downvotes, and contribute to a hostile atmosphere rather than productive debate.

If you are going to post something, with or without a disclaimer about your own background, do so without commenting about how you expect people to react in comments or votes. If there are responses you take issue with, take issue with them when they exist.
Really the fastest way to disarm a nuclear weapon is to blow it up.
Every Overwatch League game will be streamed on Twitch for the next two years
> Also, what happened on July 7th that caused the big dip in metrics?

looks like logging outage
Aaaand it's down. that was quick
One problem. Linus Torvalds lives in Oregon.
Completely agree. After my second child was born I focused my efforts into earning and saving and took a long period of unpaid time to spend with my baby. I had to keep my monthly burn rate super low and learn a lot about budgeting but it was one of the most rewarding periods of my life.

There’s always more work (it honestly never ends if your skills are valuable). But time with your kids is very precious - and that becomes very clear in retrospect.

I’ve noticed my relationship with my three year old has become closer as I’ve put more time and effort in engaging with her. There is really no replacement for quality time with your kids - no amount of toys or treats makes up for it.
They've been there before, with great success: Kodachrome.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kodachrome
The Kindle Moment (Fire and Fury Unavailability)
Most of the articles that I have read regarding the Buffalo plant have been about what a mess that it has been. This feels like an aberration, and maybe a sign that things are improving a little bit?
This is a really good analysis. I wonder if the best measure of productivity might be the number of times someone saves a file in their text editor?

Or if you took git commits, but also measured their size, and came up with an average size of commit per hour of work. That way you could use the size of the commit to roll the clock back and determine when most of that work was done?
Scalability and adoption are moving targets. People were saying the same thing of the internet in the early days.

Check SALT, millions in loans already distributed https://www.saltlending.com/
Are you saying sign up for stripe atlas?
I visit CoinMarketCap every single day and I don't recall ever seeing a notice or message about a change to the exchange listing.
> Of course the catch would be it watches you, knows you by your face, and builds your advertising profile.

And it would be enhanced to detect your emotional state from facial expressions, tone of voice, who you're with, your relationship with them, etc., and then suggest something (addictive) to cheer you up or keep you more excited. If someone didn't consider Facebook as being akin to an addictive drug, this one would prove them wrong once and for all! The sales pitch would be some drivel about meaningful connnections, interactions and experiences.