skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hmm. If I were a physicist I would probably find his works utterly defeatist.
Yup, totally agree with that. I personally don't see how disarmament can ever happen though, so I choose to think of it as a chronic problem like the threat of an asteroid strike, and just hug my kids a little harder.
At the time, you could also use a wrapper for the 3Dfx card that would work with directx, but the frame rate was much lower (probably around 7 fps with the ATI card I was using at the time).
I am interested in who the good commenters and the time dependence of certain concepts (for instance there are bursts of activity associated with conventions run by companies like Apple and Amazon, bursts associated with security breaches and issues, etc.)
For people lucky to not to be born in the Eastern bloc:

All that Pepsi was destined to closely guarded, party member only, soviet department stores stocked full of Western luxuries in the time when Soviet citizens were subsisting on bread and water.
This is also a plot point in Ted Chiang's story "The Story Of Your Life" which was the basis of the movie "Arrival".
You don't really have an upside that's the sad reality of it.
Haven't seen any mention of it, but it would be in line with these goals to rank posts with lots of angry reacts or angry reacts to comments worse. Wonder if that's going to be a factor.
Make sure and run latest parity, they just fixed a massive perf bug. https://github.com/paritytech/parity/releases/tag/v1.8.6
Sure, but there is nothing wrong with that.

Most developers, say, do not have any career path that ends them up in the C-suite, so holding that up as a comparison isn't very useful.

If you finish out your career as a middle manager or a technical specialist, it looks much more similar. It's a path to consider for many people, but realize there are far fewer opportunities (and less lateral mobility).
What jurisdiction are you in?
Mapbox is built on top of Leaflet [1], so I don't think its success would be a bad thing for Leaflet itself.

[1] https://blog.mapbox.com/mapbox-%EF%B8%8F-leaflet-d60b1be9661...
Can someone explain the economics of this? Presumably the landlords in the working class neighbourhood are already charging as much rent as the market will bare. When richer people moving in, are they outbidding locals? Are the landlords looking at the new tenants and noticing they can charge more? Why is the rich person willing to pay more if, presumably, the apartments/houses in this neighbourhood aren't as nice as ones in other areas?

Is it a slower, more secondary effect where over a period of time more rich people move in and somehow raise demand which leads to overbidding by a second wave of newcomers?

Maybe I'm presuming too much, but I don't understand why rich people would be willing to overpay for "low quality" housing in the working class area? Are they actually paying market rent, but what's happened is that all of the current residents are somehow paying below-market rent?
> After downloading twenty-some git repos(?) as dependencies (most of which my system already has)

Skia statically links in copies of these dependencies for testing purposes only. There is a mode ("is_official_build") that will search for your system libraies.
Developers run into all kinds of trouble when they use an orm without understanding the underlying execution model. Before starting Graphcool I lead the team that scaled a consumer site into the top 1000 visited sites globally. A well tuned SQL server and Hibernate took us a long way :-)

One of the biggest foot guns when working with ORMs is lazy data loading. This is a feature implemented by most advanced ORMs that allow the developer to pretend that the entire data model is in memory without having to actually fetch all data on every request. The reason this is so dangerous is that you end up passing objects around that other developers then misuse to fetch "just a little more data". Over time this can lead to tens or hundreds of roundtrips to the database for a single request.

GraphQL tackles this issue head on by encouraging the developer to specify all data dependencies up front. Client side tools like Apollo and Relay even help you collect data requirements from multiple related components and construct a minimal covering query. This means that there is only one request, and the underlying query engine has all information available.

I'm pretty excited to bring these same concepts to the server with GraphQL Bindings: https://github.com/graphcool/graphql-binding
Funny that their cure for Instagram addiction is to basically apply an Instagram filter to your whole phone. Where's the Gingham option?
a. By the time you’re a billion dollar company almost everyone will have a check from the big VC funds

b. You don’t have to be a billion dollar company for it to be a great exit
That's a whole lot of stretching to justify the communist approach. Are you really arguing that a dishwasher is worth just as much as a server? I don't think any businessperson will agree with you.

You might be more successful by just arguing that value shouldn't be tied to wages (which is what your quote is really pushing.)
Effectively what you are saying is that venture capital funds (correctly) think that that percentage of shares aren't very valuable when they are equal preference to the employees. The employee should use exactly the same evaluation framework: if the VC had nonpreferencial shares they wouldn't be worth the cash equivalent, so don't value your sweat equity that way either. Having the lower class of share should be valued even less.

It seems like almost every startup funding system is predicated on early engineers being decieved about the value of their equity, and when someone tries to point it out on hn the response is "no venture capital firm will fund you if your employees aren't deceived about the value of their equity, idiot!"
What does well-written mean?
I'd choose the first anytime because I like to create useful products whose direction I can control rather than catering to the needs of VC investors.

While venture capital can be required for certain types of businesses or products having an investor requires time and energy for matters only indirectly related to your product and your customers. With venture capital investors onboard the question "How do I build a product that solves a problem for my customers?" becomes less important in favour of "How will it be able to scale?".

Venture capital also means that probably you won't be running the company yourself anymore in 5-10 years. Given your motivation that can be perfectly fine but if you love what you're doing this can be a downside.
FPGAs are "fast" for very specific workloads - in particular, things where you need lots of throughput and the problem divides up well into lots of parallel slices. For instance, routing packets between multiple 100Gb links or receiving many channels of high-speed radio data (cell towers).

FPGAs can also be really useful when simulating large custom logic chips (ASICs) that haven't been built yet at close-to-production speed (versus at 1000x slower than normal in software simulation)

Turning HDL code into a bitstream is not either kind of problem.
How an A.I. G.A.N Generates Believable Fake Photos
Looks interesting, but it seems to be a landing page to gauge interest with no app available yet.

Edit: To be clear, I set my phone to grayscale a little while ago, so I'm aware that's built in to iOS. I think the additional features that this app idea is proposing on top of that feature are great, but it seems like the app does not yet exist (and perhaps not possible with iOS's limitations).
I know the difference, just stating my stance in this matter. Besides Yuzu can't even be used like that in it's current state, and like has been said if a game doesn't sell during its shelf life it doesn't bode well to any of the makers. It's enough to kill medium/small studios and entire IP's.
Here's a recent English case, where a mother wanted to call her two children Preacher and Cyanide.

(This is the appeal) http://www.bailii.org/cgi-bin/format.cgi?doc=/ew/cases/EWCA/...

Here, the mother was already involved in care proceedings, and the local authority child protection social workers weren't able to just force her to pick different names, but had to go to court in front of an independent judge.

It's a pretty detailed document and it shows, I think, how uncomfortable English judges are with exercising this power.
Those spot cleaning handheld carpet shampooers are also great for small places for similar reasons. Slurp up anything right when it gets spilled and rent an upright once a year. Also good for upholstery.
The first chapter of "Data Smart" (https://www.amazon.ca/Data-Smart-Science-Transform-Informati...) gets into some more advanced but practical tasks in Excel. The material is accessible to the beginner and assumes little prior knowledge of Excel.
My wish too! I have no issues with F# on Windows or Linux using .NET Core
I use F# as my general high-level language and Zig as my C replacement/Rust alternative for low-level work. I can gradually re-write C stuff in Zig, and be productive.

[1] - ziglang.org
Really saying that a CLI to a RDBMS is better than a GUI (PHPMYADMIN) there must be more script kiddies on hn than I thought
> I believe I heard that the xbox360 contains an Xbox emulator for backwards compatibility. If it wasn't the Xbox360 it was some other console.

The Xbox One uses emulation to play a (growing) subset of original Xbox and Xbox 360 games.
With Bitcoin what's great is that there were no hard forks for a long time (and not planned), so I can still use and old software if I want to send transactions.

With Ethereum whenever there's a hard fork I have to upgrade and trust the dev. team even for spending my own money.

Also as I'm using multi-sig, the parity bug and the complexity of multi-sig code makes me unable to use it. For Bitcoin I read the multi-sig code myself, as it's just a simple stack machine code that anybody could read (and the transaction format is simple enough to understand).
They obviously have metrics that long time users like myself are quitting and opting out and are getting scared. Their own employees probably hate the feed and the product, and I can't see how they couldn't. Everyone in that office probably feels shitty and raged up all day.
Sell it to the U.S. government
Is there a reason you believe that?
Took me a while to get what this app does, maybe it would be a better idea to link to their homepage: https://gogray.today/

> What was bright and shiny was now dull and boring. It's like turning your favourite dessert into broccoli.

This fantastic analogy it was sold me on signing up, good copywriting:
> I believe that the Eth rocket is just about to launch.

I mean look at this sentence. What kind of arguement can I have with this? So in this case, the strawman was a harder adversary and I was actually making it harder for myself by going against that.
So if there is no liability for lying in ads, then why should there be any recourse for lying in reporting "news" ?

Sadly, looking at the future from the the precedence of this 1999 case, it makes Benedict Arnold a joke comparing to what Judge Kimba Wood did to the future of this country.
Haris Aziz, Barton Lee⸻A fair election for all: what's voting got to do with it?
Not to mention that it's not clear at all that this is intended to de-feature your phone in order to make you use it less.

It's presumed that you have that context before you get here, I guess.
@syllogism, have you thought about a demo combining spaCy + ____ to tackle SQuAD (https://rajpurkar.github.io/SQuAD-explorer/)?
Same. Bezos' Balls of fury.
I'm interested in the details, but I don't see PM info in your bio.

Please reach out to twitter@web007 or ryan at geekportfolio with anything you can share - I'm working on a side-side-side-project for increasing employability, and this kind of info is exactly what I want to promote.
"company loyalty" ... in programming? are you serious?

I hope for your sake that you aren't. If you are, you probably are already getting screwed and just don't know it yet. And it'll probably end with another disillusionment because the company sure as hell won't be loyal to you once the CEO can increase his exit-bonus by firing you.
> Every change I’ve made in my working environment over the past year or so has also been a lessening of immersiveness. My interfaces have become less rich, less colorful, less dynamic.

I really like the author's place -vs- tool metaphor to contrast wannabe immersive experiences with tools that stay out of your way. I don't think it makes sense to avoid having places you go to (where you feel "at home") -- I mean that very generally, but even in the specific case of computing, your goto places might be your favorite browser, the command line, the unix system, Emacs, your IDE etc. A place where you feel at home, at control, with a sense of the multitude of possibilities lying ahead, and still in the driver's seat.

The important requirement then is that the environment shouldn't try to nudge you around (especially towards misaligned goals). This is where most web/software platforms of today come up short, IMHO.

This metaphor is also the best elucidation of Alan Kay's pithy quote (reproduced approximately): To me, a computer is worth more than my car, because of all the things it enables me to do. Most people, however, pay about as much for a computer, as they pay for a TV, and use it in roughly the same way.
I've noticed that the "ordinary" things in life like getting married, or the birth of your first child are exceptional when they happen to you.
sorry about that! you are definitely right.

and thanks, thought of that myself :)
They provide workable instructions for creating this effect on Andriod and iOS, as it doesn't require an app as such.

If an app does come out of this, it'll probably be more about setting greyscale for different other apps.
I'm being imprecise. Obviously, a lot of SFBA tech startups recruiting developers to implement solutions on extremely well-trodden technical ground are, in fact, trying to compete with Google for the same pool of developers. But that's irrational, and they should stop.
Thanks for the response, is that based on debian/ubuntu? I need to have that environment to mirror production environments.
I must admit I only read the headline, but I'm sure the organizations are making due with the thin, tight-margins off black market cocaine, heroine, and methamphetamine sales.
Weak. This shows some statistics (easy) but nothing about how to build an NLP system that actually does something.
wouldn't the self-interested parties be the ones with a stake in crypto?

and even if the article is written out of self-interest, does that somehow make its conclusions incorrect?
"looks worse" is a pretty nebulous statement. Can you go into detail? Do you think text in Chrome looks bad?
"...because it's harder to sell random reach to advertisers. Remember that you're not Facebook's customer, so this is a move to keep eyeballs from leaving."

Exactly.
Thanks for the explanatory article; just reading the linked site left me scratching my head wondering what the heck putting my phone in grayscale mode would have to do with "phone addiction".

I'm still not convinced it makes much sense, but at least it's not totally random....
So https://bitshares.org/ and other decentralized exchanges are still allowed? Wow.
leaflet and open layers have different use-cases.

This is a massive oversimplification, but roughly, one way of thinking of it is that leaflet is more suited to consumer-facing web maps and openlayers is more appropriate for heavy gis workloads; e.g. a web app for visualising business locations worldwide vs a web app for manipulating SHP data and EPSG projections.

That's not to say Leaflet can't be used for the latter -- e.g. in combination with some other tools like turf -- but OL is being developed with this kind of stuff on mind.
If the service is publicly available to people, I doubt it would matter. Vulnerabilities are disclosed daily for publicly available services. I remember someone publicly disclosing the vulnerabilities in the Indian government's Aadhar app, a public service, on twitter a few days back. I doubt they took down his tweets.

If the service is not publicly available or is some kind of internal, enterprise tool, then it would be a different matter.
It would be interesting to know how well some of the entries on the Squad page do for the Winograd Schema challenge (https://cs.nyu.edu/faculty/davise/papers/WinogradSchemas/WS....). Does anyone know if any of the systems have been tested on that as well?
Text-Only TC
While there are a lot of people who care about technology it pales in comparison to those who just want a quick buck from a manic bubble, using the term "no one" is extreme but it's not completely unfitting.
Seems like parent advocates the experience, not the habit
> Two, woah! Blimey the free market provides us two options!

You said there were "no options to pay in the phisical world".

I proved you wrong, because there are. Just one option would have proved you wrong, yet in reality there are far more than one. In Amsterdam alone.

And so your arguments start to move. Now it suddenly needs "a large adoption" and not a "niche" (mollie, btw is one of the largest, if not the largest PSP in the netherlands). And they shift from "no-where where I can pay" to "you can pay, but very few people actually do so".

You could also just admit that you were wrong because you were not aware that there is an actual community out there, even in your hometown, who accepts Bitcoin, pays with it and as such makes it an actual payment system. You could admit that you were not aware of this, but that now you are, you know that Bitcoin is used; just not in the way you envision it, or not by the people and companies that you would like to.

Also note that many people (I'm not aware that you did this!) mention that bitcoin is both a failure because no-one ever pays with it, yet also mention that it is a failure because the confirmation times are high and fees are growing; which is a direct effect of too much people using it.
Hey it could be worse, people could be getting a degree because they need it for signaling purposes and/or to satisfy an arbitrary immigration bureaucracy and don't actually need any of the things they're being taught. Oh, wait :)
If the market rent increases in the neighborhood because its not more hip or desirable, the landlords can renovate the apartments to sale or rent with higher prices. Before they wouldn't necessarily have economic motivation to do it.
Well look at this: https://hackaday.com/2018/01/15/this-portable-pi-may-not-be-...
To be a great exit for whom? For founders maybe for employee nope. You gave some hypothetical employee 1% and 5 years later company sold for 200 mil. by that time that 1% got diluted most likely 4x so she/he get's 250K considering the salary and perks haircut that employee took to join startup over 5 years he/she is basically f#$%ed, but that is still a very optimistic scenario.
Because PoW enabled trustless transactions AND a provably equitable distribution of the coin via distributed minting. "I can prove that this is not a scam to waste your time and money."

Other non-mined coins would never have taken off because they would never have gathered the critical confidence/interest that Bitcoin did. Only after PoW paved the way could others have any faith in DPoS or other coins.
Which days and times are most active for companies using posts for content marketing purposes.

How long YC companies take to find candidates/fill positions for HN job postings (perhaps by how many times you see the same post occur over a window of time). Usually has "(YC {{BATCH}})" in the title, but not always.
This is why open standards are so important.

DRM and proprietary drivers/blobs/formats are enemy to humanity. This is also why it should be (and in some places is) 100% legal to circumvent such measures, including via reverse engineering.

But it shouldn't be that way! I'd say society should go a step further and grant copyright on works only if the specification of the underlying formats is fully released, just like patents exist(ed?) to grant legal protection in exchange for disclosure.
Why Proof of Burn cannot work cleanly in practice
I'm not sure how laundry services currently work. Assuming there is a robot like Foldimate maybe laundry services will use them and maybe laundry services will be unable to compete with coin-operated Foldimates located at self-service laundry facilities.
eh, it's not a science fair.
Good idea. It makes sense that if there is a "Counterexample" button, there should also be an "Example" button. I have added an "Example" button to the app. I've only tested it a little, so if you try it out, please tell me if it isn't working.
I don't quite get why this should work but I'm already enjoying it. Not for addiction, I'm not addicted. But it's calmer. I feel calmer.
Spectre and Meltdown: How Cache Works
The OpenStack identity crisis
API Marketing Strategies
hey sorry for the misunderstanding, i did link the wrong page.

more context on https://gogray.today

i give instructions for going gray on phones on the website, the app we're developing is desgined to make grayscale easier (whitelisting certain apps that is useful in colour, like google maps, etc).
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you're right!

i give instructions for going gray on phones on the website, the app we're developing is desgined to make grayscale easier (whitelisting certain apps that is useful in colour, like google maps, etc).
TLDR: Motivate yourself with -

1. Pick idea personally interesting to you (seems self-evident)

2. Use time box (not a new idea, and mostly a known concept)

3. Use external accountability (also not a new idea, and mostly a known concept)

So, it's kind of a shallow piece not really introducing new information to me.

What I don't get is all the hate on HN--which is a sad state.

I get the perhaps accidentally inflammatory tone of the article, which is "you have enough time, what you need is motivation."

It can be offensive to people who are struggling with kids and literally have no more time, but really want to work on side projects ... to have some random dude on the internet say, "look man, all you need is just more motivation!"

Okay, I get that.

So for the Hackernoon editor: maybe less shallow and potentially presumptuous pieces that offends people with kids.

And for the people with kids or some life circumstance that prevents you from doing side projects but are extremely motivated: no need to be sarcastic about how difficult life is to raise a kid on Hacker News.
I don't know about the app, but following the instructions on that website I have just set my phone to monochrome mode.

I'm not sure it will assist me to use my phone less, because initially I really like it!

The main use for my phone is to read stuff; news, email and instant messaging. I don't use social networking on my phone (apart from Hacker News if that qualifies). I do use a 2FA app, but colour hardly matters there. I do also take pictures with the phone and perhaps that's the one potential drawback I can think of.

I find the monochrome look easier on the eyes and initially very pleasant to use.
Not being in control of what I see is why I stopped using Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. I want to control what is in my feed, and I want it in chronological order. Twitter and Facebook make me feel passive and helpless.

I use reddit because I’m in control: I only see what I subscribe to, and I can switch between popular and chronological.