skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
DynASM is an interesting tool (it's used in LuaJIT). I used it to test integer overflow overhead [1] (mainly because I could specify different expression lengths and test `INTO` vs. `JO`).

[1] http://boston.conman.org/2015/09/05.2
http://boston.conman.org/2015/09/07.1
Curious to know if this also affects their SaaS offering or if that is already patched.
CES is for brand recognition. There are thousands of products that come into existence and disappear every year. Having to find the website for all of them would never happen. Even aggregators like this site are going to miss most of them. Walking the floors of the convention is a great way to get a huge infodump on what people are planning to sell.

I agree that a lot of what goes on there is a stupendous waste of money, but you are guaranteed to see dozens of products that you've never heard about when you walk the show floor.

The other reason people set up booths there is that they're looking for distribution partners and investors. It's a long shot, but it's better than every distributor and every investor getting a call from every company that wants to make/sell products in the US. This is why you see a ton of Chinese companies with tiny booths with names like Shenzen Happy Fun Heavy Industries just waiting for someone with an investor badge to walk by and make an offer to sell their phone cases and USB cables.
Arguably easier to eat a large number of calories on a vegetarian diet, than on its polar opposite, ketogenic diet.

It's kind of hard work eating 3500 calories of just meat, eggs and cheese. Whereas that amount of bread, pasta, sweets, and other nominally vegetarian foodstuffs can be easily wolfed down.
> What's Facebook going to do? Fine you? Sentence you to Community Service? Send you to jail?

Limit your ability to speak in public.

> Maybe the crux of the matter is that I don't believe people have a constitutional right to be able to post to on Facebook.

That is correct. But you have a constitutional right that the state does not prevent you from speaking in public (with relatively narrow exceptions), which includes the right that the state does not pressure/incentivise other people or corporations to limit your ability to speak in public. The fact that Facebook is allowed to prevent you from speaking does not mean that the state is allowed to tell them to stop you from speaking.
Questioning assumptions: do cryptocurrencies need fees?
When your manager isn't supporting you, develop a manager crew
My floor isn't flat enough for my roomba clone, it get's stuck on a lip. More importanly though, my floor has all sorts of stuff on it, the clothes I wore yesterday, that box I haven't thrown out and various other random things, along with myself.

My ceiling is remarkably free of obstacles and has a lot of unused space.
It could be because of the refresh late. Officially, people can't tell the difference past 60hz, but I've always found anything less than 75hz gives me migraines.

[[At least, the only times I've had a migraine in the last three or four years were when I was setting up a new system and forgot to frob the monitor to 75hz (I don't understand why it doesn't just automatically detect this stuff. But there we go...)]]
If property value appreciation is significant (in SF, about 12% in 2017) the benefit of renting out (AirBnB or otherwise) may actually be minimal - as you said, the overhead of finding and managing the rental. $3k/month on a rental makes you far less than just 12% appreciation on a $1.5M place.
Good interviews involve problem solving from first principles. In CS it is mostly algorithms. Maybe some systems design and/or os and network fundamentals.

That being said, to prep is better than to not prep.. just like the SAT. The problem is that these things favor those who make the time.
I saw this in a local documentary about the USA (De Verenigde Staten van Eva). They called these people "preppers". I had never heard of that before. Don't remember if Mormon was mentioned.
author seemed a bit concerned about Pu-238 being used for weapons, but I think that's the wrong isotope (238 being not fissile, as well as physically hot)
It probably wouldn't be feasible, mostly because if it got smashed by a car, a fairly potent alpha emitter would possibly be released, which is an ingestion and inhalation hazard. The radioisotope usually used (Pu238) is also not produced very much right now so it's in short supply. You make it in special Neptunium-237 targets inside nuclear reactors. In terms of power you can get well up into the hundreds of Watts fairly easily but it can get big. Here's the one used in Mars Curiosity rover [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-Mission_Radioisotope_The...

People talk about using isotopes from nuclear waste for this kind of thing a lot but they're usually considered too expensive.
Update: On the trail of an exomoon
I think this will basically kill AirBnBs for any sizable multi-tenant building, which is basically 90% of the inventory in certain areas of the city. I don't know of any condo associations or professionally-managed apartment buildings that allow short-term rentals.

Sure, single family homes or very small condo units (e.g. just a couple units where the owners all know each other) may allow it, but if other cities take this lead it will be a large, significant blow to AirBnB.
1) Those are professional schools
2) Even so, no respectable law school offers a bar prep class. Nor does any med school offer "How to ace the USMLE".
My school does co-op's and has a 1 credit co-op prep course. We do have practice interviewing there. We also do resume workshops, general best practices for the industry you're in, etc.

You can do both the content and the prep, as I am sure is the case with Stanford CS.

While it's unique to have a course specifically named for this and am sad to see it as well, I don't think this is as big as people are making it out to be, nor is it a canary in the coal mine for higher education. To me, this only signifies the growing shift in education, as it becomes more available to all, being about preparing for your career as much as learning itself. The simple fact is that most attending college today are not doing so just out of the desire to learn alone, but also want to, well, have a nice career in their respective industry. To be able to make a living.

While I would also agree with cautioning about education for career alone, I think it's important that modern education focuses on both. It's the reality of an increasingly college educated world.
I doubt the dual dishwasher strategy works, as it’s unlikely that the clean dishwasher will get completely emptied and you’ll end up with both washers with dishes you want but sometimes mixed with dirty dishes.
Fwiw, my understanding is that the Vancouver ordinances are also levying heavy fines for letting properties sit vacant.

There are lots of vacant properties: people happy to just watch the home value go up without dealing with renters...
I've done some image searches (to no avail) hoping to find images showing the distinctive built-in screen and keyboard.

The screen displayed characters using a "font" that I've never seen elsewhere, more resembling characters a human would handprint than a modern fixed font. I was hoping to find images of that. I did at least find a partial image[0] of a S/370 console with the light arrays that triggered my sci-fi comparison above.

[0] https://popesixteen.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/picture-syst...
I would think so. I imagine it depends on the specific rendering system. XCB/Xorg is going to antialias text differently to Areo due to using different libraries. I think within linux at least it also depends on the application. I seem to remember that Qt and GTK have different font rendering systems.
CES is like this every year.
Right but she is licensed, this is the main issue.
Since getting some computer glasses my eyes have gone from deteriorating every year to getting slightly better. Might be a coincidence but I suspect not. Next time I'm in Asia I'm going to get an even weaker pair and see if my eyes can keep improving.
I quit using chromecast and a wireless HDMI solution. Does exactly what I want most of the time.
Most of these things have long since been disrupted:

Making meals :- go to a cafe, been around for centuries, uber eats etc. Worst case, get frozen meals (some are really good) and bung them in the microwave.

Driving Kids :- Taxi, bus, chauffeur, again have been around for ages, auto drive cars are not that far away, but will you be willing to abandon your kids to the machine?

Grocery and other shopping:- Amazon, online shopping.

Picking up:- If you can't manage to put things away yourself, then get a maid or cleaner.

As somebody else posted, most of these automated devices don't seem to have got much further than they were in the tech shows of the late 70's, they just have more "AI" built in the seem to be designed to make you purchase from their vendor.
Institutionalzing a broken process. :-/
The pomodoro technique was named so because the kitchen timers tend to look like a tomato. We've come full circle :)
Finance at least has prep for interviewing for investment banking, trading, and consulting. When I was in undergrad it was common to have mock interviews and prep for commonly asked interview questions. Most people prepped on being able to walk you through basic financial statements, valuation, brain teasers, case interviews, and stuff like that.

I'll take your word for the other fields as I can't speak directly to interview vs exams there.
Stanford kids do well on the SATs which require similar prep. Same thing, different day.
I think overall housing supply is the primary driver.

This regulation is just the sort of red tape that incompetent governments impose, fooled by rent seeking interests to implement a barrier to entry to reduce competition.
Arbitrage and network effects
That stupid laundry folding robot was there. They had a "show" every 15 minutes or so where they would pick a person from the audience to stuff clothes into the machine and have them not folded (the demo machine only had the loader).

I didn't see the crashed companion robots. They were working when I walked by, but I didn't pay them much mind because I thought they were stupid. There were also a number of advertising robots which show up every year. They have screens for heads/chests and don't do much of anything useful. The new addition this year was a French model that was built like a Heroin Chic Supermodel instead of the superdeformed look that most of the Japanese companies opt for.

IMHO, Google's voice stuff was more common than Alexa this year. It actually got annoying to hear someone say "hey Google" for the millionth time. Even the goddamn Monorail was saying it.
Oh wow. Thank you for that. I forgot I had set it to force HTTPS.
There's a problem with t-shirt and jeans every day? Nobody told me... ;-)
This shows the incredible myopia of these activists

Or they knew that perfectly well but considered it a small problem relative to the harm they seek to prevent. Everything comes with a downside risk, but pointing out the fact of its existence tells you little about the scale of its severity..
You can try using an exporter to see how much more work you'll have to do to make the new static version work to your liking.

https://gohugo.io/tools/migrations/#wordpress
https://import.jekyllrb.com/docs/wordpress/
My first reaction is that the pattern would be readable by other devices nearby (including skimmers designed for that purpose). I guess that wouldn't matter if there was an underlying sequence-changing algorithm known only to both devices, a la spread-spectrum frequency hopping.
From an engineering standpoint, what you describe is likely actually possible to implement right now. It would be expensive as heck, but it should be doable.

Meanwhile, no amount of money can currently buy you a robot that will completely do your laundry, because the problem has not yet been solved. The development of this stuff is not exactly intuitive.
Call me a cynic, but I'm willing to believe that there was a 'ballistic missile alert' button in the wrong place. Sometimes bad placements are only clear after the fact. I walked into a building once and the lights were out. I walked along the wall and pulled the first switch I found - which turned out the be the fire alarm.
That's true but isn't 80% of our energy usage used to heat and regulate our body temp? I was wondering if we would then need less "food" for daily calories...
I adored this plane in middle school (roughly around the time when the X-men were rolling around in one), but the body style, it's speed, everything about it just screamed mystery and power.

It doesn't have the same appeal to me now, but I still think it was such an elegant design in comparison to the stealth bomber.
The 705 wasn't related to the 709->7090/7094 at all, being a variable length word machine. The 702 and 705 are close relatives with the 7080 their transistorized descendant. The 709's predecessor was the 704.
One thing I'd thought about for years finally appeared at CES. They had a mister you attach to the outside unit of your heat pump. It included the deionizer/water softener to prevent the minerals from building up on your A/C.

But then the company ruined it by selling it only as a $100/year service.
Crypto: Everyone Is Getting Hilariously Rich and You’re Not
Ugh... This build system is _horrible_.

bash-dependent meta-builder for ninja-build working in git checkouts. Are both actual releases and traditional build systems that out of fashion?
Kind of hard to hide a baby dolphin in some brush or a cave. Kind of hard to hole up in a cave as an oceanic mammal as well.
Not that long... or rather, it could work for a very long time but wouldn't be that useful because of the low power provided.

From Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioisotope_thermoelectric_ge...

Plutonium-238 has a half-life of 87.7 years, reasonable power density of 0.54 watts per gram - that's heat energy.And then there's math on that which has a rather low efficiency (somewhere around 23% for a stirling engine approach). And well... its hot. And how old is your phone? I don't think my 20 year old phone would still work... why charge power it with something that would last 30 years when the technology that drive it is gone in half a decade.
There are a lot of solutions looking for problems nowadays.
> I believe that the Eth rocket is just about to launch.

Why do you believe that?
Easier to replace the whole pacemaker than the battery, for a couple of reasons:

* Pacemakers are hermetically sealed, usually laser-welded in a titanium case. Adding a replaceable battery with seals would complicate this arrangement.

* By the time the battery winds down, there may be a newer, better pacemaker on the market that fits the patient's needs.

* Since a battery replacement necessitates surgery, you might as well replace the whole unit and get all new parts rather than put an old one back in that may be reaching MTTF.

As for how long the cells last, modern Lithium Thionyl Chloride cells last 5-10 years depending on the pacemaker. They probably actually last longer, manufacturers are pretty conservative with lifetime estimates.

As for plutonium supplies like those in the article, they don't really die since they're thermoelectric. The amount of current you can draw will be proportional to the amount of heat generated by the isotope and the temperature gradient. Since the heat is related to the amount of isotope remaining, the power available will follow an exponential decay. The half-life of Pu-238 is about 88 years, so the battery will last a very long time. The exact lifetime depends on how much current the pacemaker takes to operate.

Most people had these devices replaced with more modern versions, but there are still a few people who have the old plutonium devices which were implanted decades ago.
I think the floaters are a function of both getting old, and brighter "white" displays.

I started noticing them about 10 years ago when I got my first iMac. Prior to that I'd mostly used smaller CRT displays, suddenly my field of view was taken up by this big white screen and what were those dark shadows floating around my view...

A few years on and I still see them, especially when using a 21+ inch screen on white web pages. Just part of get old...
Unless you eat in the cabinet, the dishes won't stay there.
Nice play with the word intended. I can agree that affirmative action is not intended to be racist or sexist. It’s a tool, with positive and negative consequences. I am not saying it’s a tool that we should not use.

Unfortunately the number of Hispanic and African Americans in tech decreased between 2007 and 2015 while gender balance improved which is part of the reason why I think we need to look into other tools as well.

I think it’s worth asking oneself if our current tools are not inclusive to different viewpoints, and just filter for people that are similar to the ones already there and happen to check the right boxes.

Would someone that dresses, talks, and walks like they come from east Oakland be hired even if they were a capable engineer or have we not made ourself inclusive to that?
Not the parent poster, but the way I look at it is this:

Making money off speculation is a net negative for society as a whole. Very little has changed about Bitcoin except that people will pay more to buy some of it now than they would 5 years ago. There's not any fundamental reason for this; Bitcoin itself isn't even loosely related with any kind of commodity or anything "real" that could drive its growth. It's just people hoping that there will be a "greater fool" in the future that will pay more of it, and that there will continue to be greater fools for as long as they decide to stay in the game. More charitably put: it's people who really believe Bitcoin will change the world[0] of finance someday, and want to make sure they have a stake.

I'm not entirely opposed to making money via those means, but if I were to do so, it would be at someone else's expense. At least if I invest in, say, an index fund, that money goes toward actual economic activity: building things, selling things, etc. (no, that money doesn't go directly toward that, but after several convolutions, that's what it's supporting).

When I think of cryptocurrency specifically, I also think of several countries' worth of electricity being burned in support of the various currency networks, and I get a very sour taste in my mouth.

So I think it's hard to say that I'm for or against making money from speculative activity; it depends on the particular speculative play and how much I can stomach whatever external harm or negatives that speculation causes[1].

[0] I do believe blockchain tech (in general; not Bitcoin specifically) does have a lot of potential, but I don't think any of the current cryptocurrencies are going to be around for the long term. If the blockchain does change the world in some way, it'll be a new application of it that we probably haven't seen yet.

[1] I just want to be clear that I'm not trying to take a holier-than-thou attitude here... I'm likely comfortable with some negative externalities, just not all, I guess.
Not quite. You would not quintuple your dishwashing usage, so you wouldn’t expect to quintuple your service requirements.

But double, that I would believe.
One can argue that this is the same thing.
It sounds to me like it's only a simple "nope" if the only weapons you are worried about are nuclear weapons.

Pu-238 could still be useful for radiological weapons such as dirty bombs. If you're worried about them then it becomes a (slightly) more nuanced, "How many morgues do I have to raid, and can I do it before the authorities catch on to the Crematorium Bandit?"
What do most financial products provide to society that's new and useful?

If you want to throw up your hands and declare this all a waste of time, feel free. You'll have lots of company, and for good reason, but setting some arbitrarily high goal such as "providing something new and useful to society" just makes it sound like you've got an axe to grind.

There's plenty of things about Ethereum (and blockchain exchanges and how they are used and hyped) to criticize legitimately, but this doesn't seem to be one of them.
Isn't heat essentially a by-product of muscles "burning" the glucose? I'm not sure we actually need more heat besides what's already being generated as a by-product.
Really the absorption measurement should have been taken using a broadband lamp (an old light bulb would do). Using a CFL, the signal to noise in the attenuation region is pretty poor to begin with.

A lot of plastics (e.g. Polycarbonate) attenuate UV - you have to go out of your way to find windows that will pass it. For example: http://www.randombio.com/clear-lucite-spectra.png
I have the same router I bet (Archer c7) and I'm convinced it just hates Android devices in general.

Every time my phone has a connection hiccup it takes several minutes to renegotiate DHCP... But if I turn off WiFi and count to 15 and turn it on, it reconnects in 3 seconds flat.

I'm tempted to throw out my wifi gear but I'm having trouble who in the industry isn't total garbage, because I have an Asus AP that sure isn't helping.
Putin has more nuclear weapons. Shouldn't he decommission his first? He has already risked kicking off WWIII several times. He took a chunk of Ukraine, broke two chunks off of Georgia, make a bunch of border incursions into NATO/EU countries up north, and is currently supporting a civil war in Ukraine.

The situation is pretty crazy. Russia is far from the world's biggest economy, yet it is the nation with the greatest nuclear capability. There is clearly a desire to hold the rest of the world hostage, strongly equating fear with respect.

Note that Ukraine once had nuclear weapons. They gave them up, being assured that Russia would not threaten territorial integrity and that the USA would help ensure this. We see what those promises were worth. Giving up the nuclear capability was obviously a mistake. There is no way that Putin would have annexed Crimea under the threat of nuclear retaliation.
Do you have details on that solution? Is it a small PC?

One problem is that a lot of the things I cast use Android apps. Although I should check if they have web options. But a web browser is also a big dependency.
But do most law school grads take bar prep classes?
guess you could just clean the clean dishes again
Am I the only one that washes dishes immediately after use? No need to even use the machine. Wash immediately after use, let them dry on rack, wipe and put away.

Dishes and laundry are a total non-issue.
I am curious if you have. I would encourage you to read http://www.fao.org/docrep/ARTICLE/AGRIPPA/555_EN.HTM

> According to the National Office of Animal Health (NOAH, 2001), antibiotic growth promoters are used to "help growing animals digest their food more efficiently, get maximum benefit from it and allow them to develop into strong and healthy individuals". Although the mechanism underpinning their action is unclear, it is believed that the antibiotics suppress sensitive populations of bacteria in the intestines. It has been estimated that as much as 6 per cent of the net energy in the pig diet could be lost due to microbial fermentation in the intestine (Jensen, 1998). If the microbial population could be better controlled, it is possible that the lost energy could be diverted to growth.

Do you have any material from a peer reviewed source that refutes this?
The funny thing is that software engineering does this while also complaining of labor shortages. Or, if we're being a bit more honest, it's not funny, it's cynically self-serving.
I couldn't doubt it after watching Sophia the robot's interview: https://www.facebook.com/io9.com/videos/10156086364533967/?s...
You could be right, but I was mostly referring to the Amazon take.