skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had a slightly easier task when I found some of my old 3.5" PC floppies, and I recovered some old ASM and Turbo Pascal work.

The best part was rediscovering the ASM code for a PC program that wrote out the current time in words - I was inspired by a similar program by the late Jim Button (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Knopf), and I remember that at the time I had some fun working how to shave the code down, saving a few bytes here and there by using different coding or optimising the storage of the text data.

There's also a map editor for the PC game 'Rockford', although, sadly, it doesn't work with the only version of the game I've found still available, which seems to be a 'gen 2' clone using a different PC game engine and a different map format.

Anyway, I put my nostalgia here:

https://github.com/linker3000/Historic-code-PC-Pascal-and-AS...
This native speaker thinks you have a point. The “consistency” is a property possessed by the graphite, thus “has”. The “is” suggests that graphite is to be directly equated with consistency.

Comparatives are always tricky in English, but consider:

“Ball bearings, which have the smoothness of plate glass, ...”

You would not put “are” for “have” in the above. You can generate a lot of similar examples.
Yes, of course because the comment I was replying to was about location being worthless in general.
This is one of dryest jokes I’ve ever seen on HN. Well done.
this talk really enlightened me: https://www.infoq.com/presentations/neural-networks-introduc...

it is not a full course, but more an introduction.
No that is not the correct one, we are using a solderless board.
What artistic technique is possible with a wooden pencil but not a leadholder? Leadholders let you draw with the side of the lead, and sharpen it to any shape you like. They're practically the same as wooden pencils except you don't need to cut the case to sharpen them.
I think breakfast/dinner/supper was standard usage among my extended family in Alabama -- I have to say "was" because I haven't been there since the early 1970s, but I wouldn't be surprised if it hadn't changed.
Those last ones (final sentence, maybe one other) could be considered malware repair steps, in a different light.
I never knew mixed reality viewer was so awesome!
Manu Saadia's Trekonomics: The Economics of Star Trek is kinda the reverse: it is an examination of Star Trek's post-scarcity economy, how matter replicators change everything, and what people do with their free time when they don't have to work. Here is a transcript from an NPR interview with Paul Krugman about Saadia's book:

https://www.marketplace.org/2016/09/07/world/economist-paul-...
I think you're missing a step. The surpluses are invested in Treasury securities, which is where the "IOUs" tripe comes from. Figures for the national debt invariably _include_ these securities, which is worthwhile to point out lest people think the liability is somehow hidden with shell games.

I think the latest figures for the national debt are just shy of $14 trillion, of which about $3 trillion is owed to the Social Security trust funds.
This is definitely one of my favorite books.
Original palmOS didn't have a filesystem. Apps just sort of took care of any data they had there was never a "save" or "load file" option in those apps. There are other systems that are similar in that regard (AS400 is somewhat similar, and much older, and MVS doesn't really have a filesystem either).

And multiple overlapping windows was the big breakthrough with the original macos. Even then it was quite restricted (only desk accessories could overlap) until system6/multifinder added the ability to run more than one application at a time.

So, while I agree the ipad model works well for a lot of things, I think the dedicated tablet model is sort of dying now that ~6" phones are everywhere. When the ipad broke, no one missed it..
I took the coursera specialisation one week ago. It takes you from the very basics to some more complex modules like keras or tensorflow. If you are into it and have time, the whole 4 courses can be done in the free week:
https://www.coursera.org/specializations/deep-learning
Plan 9 sorta does 3. Can execute on one device, display on another, play sound on two others, and store wherever. This was always my pipe dream w/ that OS.
Pretty sure I have cancer. Context: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15889203

FWIW I also have narcolepsy, which took until adulthood to diagnose and had far more devastating effects on my life: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10984478

Didn't want to make this about me, but the coincidence between sleep problems and cancer is interesting enough that it seemed worth chiming in.
ASICs and FPGAs do this.

They're used in bitcoin mining where you do the same operation over and over.
THE HITLERISM IN DONALD TRUMP MAKES HIM a PURE RACIST
Hey!

Thank you for the response. I updated it :)
Citizen Scientists Discover Five-Planet System
Yes, that is what I meant, yes.
Thanks. I have updated the breadboard to a solderless one.
The Red Trilogy is very good military sci-fi as well. I may have accidentally consumed the entire thing in a week.
A "Was that worth it?" button might help distinguish clickbait or angerbait from genuinely worthwhile and fulfilling information. Say you participated in a conversation on FB. When the conversation ends, you might get a notification from FB the next time to log in asking you whether it was good.

Or a news site could have a Was it worth it? button at the end of each story, to help identify clickbait or otherwise low-quality articles. Rather than measuring how many page views each journalist drives, they might measure how many satisfied readers that article had, and reward journalists who write high-quality articles.
the AMD EPYC single socket processors are definitely worth considering, love them
Definitely the geekiest finance/sci-fi book out there.
Well, if I set a series of broad goals I want a robot to help me achieve, it seems OK for it use high cognitive empathy to get me there. Regular feedback on how where the robot is in the process would be good.

It seems like affective empathy, actually feeling, would be something you would only want from any person or person-equivalent since implies they do what you want only because they like you and they'd expect you to satisfy them in turn, a problematic relationship to have with a robot. I'd want a robot doing what I told it to do with various fail-safes and feedback (obviously, knowing something made me unhappy would be a moment to request feedback).
"We don't have a water problem, we have a salt problem." - Joe Rogan
Profit is hardly guaranteed considering capital costs. Disregarding that, I'm not sure shovels are the best comparison. Coin mining is pretty predictable in aggregate, unlike gold mining. If you own mining hardware, you can calculate expected income pretty reliably.
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bought! thanks for that.
Ask HN: Popular skills for stable remote work 4h a day?
Can someone advice what skills and exact technologies are the most popular among employers giving part time remote jobs in Europe?

I will be able to work up to 4 hours a day and willing to learn new technologies and skills. I have broad background in IT, basic experience in programming, network and system administration, general computer science knowledge.

I don't want to learn specific language, technology or skills just for one job. I need advice what programming technologies or skills are best for having stable remote job for part time and also possibility to change if needed (for now I will not be able to have full time remote job).

I'm interested in jobs requiring technical skills but also open to more soft skills based types.

Thanks in advance for the answers
Hi,

How are you trying to measure the performance impact? Are you checking the cloudwatch data or running any specific test?

I am interested to assess the baseline statistics (unpatched so far) and after patching. Any suggestions?
mine too - but not finance. Its more general crypto, etc.
https://cs231n.github.io/
As those others wrote you would probably use for

I wrote a little bit about how to work with the Future Monad in "A Little Guide on Using Futures for Web Developers'

http://codemonkeyism.com/a-little-guide-on-using-futures-for...
That's a great question. From my experience one way of getting better is go to workshops. During training you get knowledge and also feedback, often you work in groups and people are more open to giving honest feedback than in real situations.
Not all government officials and police officers are the same.
Have you heard of Magnitskiy scandal in Russia? TL/DR: police had given the materials taken during the police raids to organized criminals, who used them to fraudulently reclaim $230m of the taxes previously paid by the company.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Magnitsky#Exposing_the_...
thanks for Hannu Rajaniemj - it sounds fascinating. Bought!

Again - not crypto in general, but financial stuff. that's what i dont see written.
Ask HN: What is your favorite YouTube channel for developers (2018 Version)
Not sure whether you're asking for scifi published in 2017 or scifi we enjoyed in 2017.

Here is the scifi I enjoyed in 2017 (via audible)

- We are Legion (bob) trilogy
About AI, space and Von Neumann machines
http://dennisetaylor.org/legion/

- Ready Player One
About life later in this century. Lots of VR and references to nostalgia from the 80s and beyond
Previous version : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12702651
> Sounds like their staff has being going without sleep for a few days now.

Given that sleep deprivation has effects similar to being blackout drunk, I'd consider that equally irresponsible[0].

[0]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1739867/
> Ferrules — the metal bands that cinch around the bases of erasers — are loaded onto a conveyor and sent to a tipping machine.

I always wondered what these were called.
"Antinatalism" - look into it.

It's not only unethical to have kids but we, as humans, are just animals borne out of random processes and it's totally okay, even commendable to go extinct as species. Maybe it's about time we hit the maturity level where we stop thinking that we are important and do the most rational thing?
A common saying in linguistics is, “a language is a dialect with an army and a navy”.
Maybe have a short holiday, breather, time-out Doreen? I've been a great admirer of your contributions to this site. But here in this thread an increasingly large fraction of all your posts are taken up with questionable accusations of bad behaviour in those you are talking with. Half of which seem to describe your own behaviour (or commmon human behaviour) as well or better than that of your opponent. It's hard to be sympathetic, with your jumping to high-strung, hypersensitive accusations of bad faith etc. The topics are areas of little knowledge and high uncertainty and perhaps strong emotions, by which it's easy to be blinded. Also from this and your AskHN about your websites, you are starting to sound sadly like you feel uniquely ignored and ridiculed...

And you said you want to stop being someone who cares. Don't ever do that! Well, I'm sure you won't. Best wishes. (Sorry if I put words in your mouth or sound condescending etc. I could see both sides of this..discussion, and I hope these words aren't a total waste of time or worse.)
Not all government officials and police officers are the same. For example Magnitskiy scandal in Russia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Magnitsky#Exposing_the_...

TL/DR: police had given the materials taken during the police raids to organized criminals, who used them to fraudulently reclaim $230m of the taxes previously paid by the company.
I have a pile of similar stuff, including Zip disks (I still have an IDE drive for that, but nowhere to plug it in). Need to clear those out some day...
You may want to take a look at task_for_pid and other Mach APIs–ptrace is crippled on macOS.
No. Each copy of the VM is still it's own process. The kernel just trusts the VM to be safe.
Technical question: Could someone explain why, in the shift register, the output lock is needed at all?

Couldn't you simply connect the output of each holding lock to the respective input of the next cell and get the same results?
Is it true that being just passionate is not enough?
What do you mean by "they do have the ability to credit their accounts"? So the Fed will print more dollars and buy bitcoin? The total number of Bitcoin still doesn't change and it will raise the value of Bitcoin while devaluing dollars.
The bailouts can still occur but it will occur in dollars since that's the only currency the Fed can print. If the Fed prints more dollars, it will devalue the dollar and everyone who holds dollar will have less purchasing power while if you had Bitcoin (or gold or any other currency), you're purchasing power won't be affected.
The Terra Ignota series (Too Like the Lightning / Seven Surrenders, and Will to Battle which came out last year).

Not only is it very different in tone/style from most traditional SF I've read, it also doesn't restrict itself to just tech/physical science - it explores social and political science what-ifs too.

I'd be hard pressed to name any other book I've read in the last year (or more) that's had me pause so often just to think on the ideas presented.
I think internships should be about both giving and taking. Not just simply objects to practice on. If a startup doesn't have the time and money to invest in interns no matter what the payoff is, they probably shouldn't as it is wasting time on both sides.
Dichronauts by Greg Egan (adventures in non-Euclidean space)

Provenance by Ann Leckie (space opera)

The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. by Neal Stephenson and Nicole Galland (similar themes to Anathem)
I think if you need to copy paste code from server to client you failed the separation of concerns. When is this useful, ever?
Your concern is appreciated, by it's a hair late to the party. This discussion is over with, largely at my request. People kindly respected my stated desire to discontinue it and the mods seem to have quietly deprecated it once I made it clear I wasn't feeling myself and just wanted to walk away.
Seconded. Really remarkable series. Jemisin has a refreshingly unique perspective and voice.
I wonder how many of these speculative investments were for the sole and explicit purpose of betting that other people would invest out of stupidity?
I've lost count the number of times "watched the sunrise" was the climax of an IT war story. Bonus points for two nights in a row ! :D
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TCS hiring drops 85%
Multi-currency selector is live.
How are LEO satellites not going to be centrally controlled? It's not like the satellite owners will let you use them for free or be controlled by commercial interests and subject to laws and regulations.

You are also not going to be deploying your own balloon Internet.
Iphuck 10 by Victor Pelevin, about AI detective working in the art industry
BloomAPI (YC W17) Is Hiring a Senior Engineer in Seattle to Fix Healthcare
“Firstly, what assurances do you even have that d0 actually is a byte?“

Because of .b in cmp.b; in assembler you control exactly what goes in and what goes out. If you are comparing bytes, then bytes it must be; the rest of the register is ignored. And if you’re cmp.l d0, #$31 comparing longwords, then you already know what you’re expecting and the very nature of the way that works is that it either works or doesn’t. cmp.b d0,d1, same deal.

You’re trying to elevate something trivial (formal proof) to something more valuable and important than it really is.

And one more thing: a bad programmer will never make an effort to formally prove the logic in his program or use a strongly typed system for that matter. And a good programmer? Well, considering that Rust is utter overcomplicated garbage mishmash, that pretty much only leaves Ada as the only realistic tool of choice, but Ada is also not a very good tool: one thing that remains seared in my mind was the acute lack of documentation on the language, especially on how to solve real world problems, which makes Ada impractical. Where does that leave us? It leaves us with our own brain, knowledge, experience and insight to not write crappy software. Sorry that you feel that strong typing is a valuable tool, but practice and reality disagree with you, as is often the case in life. Better concentrate on how to write high quality software without it, or else you won’t get too far, and what benefits you do claim aren’t worth it, no matter how well it sounds in theory.

Is being able to formally prove one’s program logic better than not being able to do so? Of course. But the programming languages, the tools to do that, are utter overcomplicated garbage. You’d have an easier time and be more productive coding in assembler where you control everything, then using a piece of overcomplicated trash fire that is Rust, for example.

The entire typing thing is really just a made up crutch necessitated by artificial abstractions by high level programming languages: when I look at the data you’re sending me from the high level language in my assembler code, it’s all bits, the only thing the hardware understands, the reality. So do yourself a favor, don’t make it more complex than it needs to be. Computers are already an overcomplicated pain in the ass, let’s not try to turn it into rocket science, because it can never be that.
Could happen how? The big ISPs don't want to do it voluntarily and the Supreme Court says they don't have to. Just because the ISPs don't want to serve rural areas doesn't mean they want anybody else to either.
> Pastel extrusions, used for colored pencils, are laid by hand onto grooved wooden boards, where they will dry before being placed in pencil slats.

It blows my mind that they do this manually... I wonder how often, if at all, they update their production line.
A lawyer! So scary!
I am well aware of Keras' checkpoint code. It only supports checkpointing every epoch. So no, it does not work out of the box with Keras.
> For example, many people will "graduated college" instead of "graduated from college".

Some people will even verbs from their sentences. But comprehension > grammatical "correctness" always. In time, grammar will adapt.
UK environment strategy aims to stop needless plastic waste by 2042
> Provenance by Ann Leckie

I really really wanted to like this, but I just couldn't. Not my style unfortunately, but everyone keeps suggesting it so it's likely me that's the problem.
Seconded. Hilarious, poignant, and just all around weird. KSR does it again :)
I don’t think it works like that. You still need protection between the rings inside the VM and the CPU is providing that protection. The VM is not only a user process for the host, it is executing its kernel code in the virtualized ring 0 on the CPU (where its still the CPU that provides protection).
That's still cool and worth bragging about.
Well, The Expanse books certainly count and there's a bunch of them!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Expanse_(novel_series)
Latest Kraken update says that:

> We are still working to track down an elusive bug which is holding up launch. This bug did not appear in our many weeks of testing and only emerged in the production environment. Unfortunately, it is not consistently reproducible and we cannot launch until this issue is resolved.

Sounds pretty realistic to me. During my 8+ years of programming, I had a lot of pain and sleepless nights trying to catch elusive bugs which can be reproduced only in production servers and only sometimes. Many times, my clueless managers got nervous and demanded estimated time from me. Unfortunately, it's impossible to give realistic estimations. It could take hours, days or weeks. Also, searching for such bugs doesn't scale well. It means if you have 5 devs looking for elusive bug, it doesn't mean they will find a bug 5 times faster.
Ask HN: Do you use Helm with your Kubernetes cluster?
I'm really curious as to how many people use Helm versus writing regular kubernetes configuration files.

/mount (high horse)
After trying my best (and succeeding, I like to think) to read up on and understand Kubernetes, writing resource configurations was valuable learning/trial-and-error experience, helping me to build intuition about the cluster and the concepts that make Kubernetes. I don't at all claim to be a Kubernetes expert but writing a kubernetes configuration file has been much easier for me than writing something like a CloudFormation configuration -- CloudFormation seems to give you enough expensive cloud-scale-branded rope to hang you and a few of your closest friends.

I see Helm popping up from time to time, and every once in a while I take a look at the documentation and try to decide why I would do that instead of just writing the config file myself. While it's nice to be on my high horse, I wonder if knowing helm at that higher level is being considered "enough" by large swaths of people. This would be akin to knowing `apt-get` but not knowing the particulars of Makefiles/build processes, which I guess is the case for a lot of developers (and certainly myself at one time).

/dismount

Am I wasting my own time by not just going to using Helm straight?
> After the crisis happened the US government funded the massive bailout by printing more money. It turned out to be a "good" decision since it prevented a catastrophic economic failure but it did cause more inflation

Inflation was near zero for the whole time.

Also, Bitcoin was released in January 2009, before anything but the very earliest trivial reactions to the collapse, it absolutely was not inspired by the much later criticisms of the reactions that largely hadn't yet occurred when it was released, no matter how amusing your theory is that the motivation for Bitcoin was literally people pissed off that an entity existed which had power to act to prevent a catastrophic economic collapse.
This is how I used solutions manuals to ace calc 1 and 2 in college. I went through every problem in the book at least twice. Some people say 'don't read the solutions' but it worked for me, going back and testing myself to make sure I "got it" was the key.
This seems pretty misleading, since honestly 99% of the machine learning that goes on here happens when running the questions/answers through Google Search. There are probably millions of man-years of machine learning / information retrieval that have gone into Google Search.
[no comments? I'll say something..] What about the effect on people without depression?

It seems most human societies have incorporated hallucinogenics in an official way, part of spirituality or rites-of-passage or medicine etc. When that stopped in our culture I'm not sure. [Facts and figures welcome.]

Personally, mushrooms are the best thing I've ever done. (Half a dozen times, in my 20s) Similar to LSD. Similar to religious enlightenment. Similar to... hmm well.

It's difficult to say anything that seems like it captures even 0.1% of the experience. It's like your brain can think 10000x faster, and also sideways, indexing items and memories by emotional content, meaning, in a way it couldn't before. And the flood of thoughts, images, emotions, can become so vivid and real that it seems real. Time disappears. You can experience in a minute what seems like it must have taken many hours ..But the experience isn't one thing, it's a thousand things.

I recommend it to everyone, especially with experienced/good friends to guide you the first time.
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