skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a non-text based programming language. https://www.google.com/doodles/celebrating-50-years-of-kids-...
> If there is some learning in there, it's minimal. If you really want to hold a conference where people learn, how about we stop having them in Vegas, or some other warm weather, party destination.

That seems to me to be problems with individuals and not the conference. I've seen people go to conferences and basically skip out on half (or more) of the sessions to go drink and party, and I've seen other people stay locked in through the whole conference learning, taking notes, and participating.

For a company it may be hard to discern who is who, but I'd argue that somehow who squanders an opportunity and misuses company resources is not the person you want on your team.
Just to make sure I'm not missing anything, this is not yet available, right?
> dead money sitting in accounts and low risk investments

and real estate.

Real estate costs alone should probably strike most of them from the list. Not just for Amazons cost for building but their workforce will need to live somewhere and house costs are generally high in the candidate cities. But I guess if SV is an example, people don't consider living expenses when choose a place to live.
He's an inventor. Inventors usually work towards patents. Also, it's not so "no one else can use it". It's so that he can license out his work to a company like Intel. The patent is to protect him from a company like Intel going "sweet, thanks for the fix." And then profiting off his work. Or do you expect this guy to work for free?
The attention to detail is amazing. Almost every feature is there and responds as it would on a real windows computer. There's even the help screen.
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Patents don't necessarily mean nobody else can use it. For example, he could license the technology which means people have to pay to use it.
I feel the opposite way — it’s breaking the old magazine convention that pullout quotes are merely highlights for quick browsing, and it feels disorienting that there’s new information in these design elements.
Actually, to anyone who knows industrial history this is purest clickbait. North Korea's poylvinyl alcohol fiber is indeed made from coal, but worldwide the chemical industry used coal until after World War 2.

The feedstocks would be acetylene (from carbide) and coal tar distillates. The enormous energy requirements of a carbide oven is why the American chemical industry settled near Buffalo, NY, that's where the Niagara Falls powerplant was.
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Why? I'm genuinely curious why you blame him for patenting his work.
Cars are not a luxury item in the U.S. 88% of U.S. households own a car. If lower income folks travel between SF and LA, they'll probably drive the car they already own. Gas + depreciation for the SF-LA drive is about the same as the cost of a round-trip plane ticket, but as soon as you factor in additional passengers (say a family) there is a massive cost advantage to a car over a plane or train. And people who can't afford generally don't fly places, they take the bus.

HSR is not "public transit." Public transit helps lower-income people commute to their jobs. Lower income people don't travel regularly between SF and LA--they have no need to. They might do it occasionally, but they don't do it often enough where the convenience of a train is going to mean much if the train isn't any cheaper than flying.[1]

The folks who really benefit from HSR are business travelers. They're the ones who need to travel city center to city center regularly. They're the ones who really have a reason to prefer taking a train, because they can work more comfortably en route.

[1] Also, the target price ($86 one way) is a completely fantasy. At that price, it would be one of the cheapest HSR trips per mile in the world. https://nextcity.org/daily/entry/fare-cost-ride-california-b.... There is no way California is going to run the cheapest anything.
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One of the problems is that almost all A380 carriers are, as you say, "premium carrier[s] that that [are] known for consistently maintaining a young fleet" - but you need to be a pretty sophisticated operator to run an A380 safely. The operational sophistication you need to run one is really high - everything form maintaining the electronic systems to ensuring that all passengers have left the (very large) cabin can cause issues that require good solutions.

The problem is that just about every airline sophisticated to operate an A380 has either bought (at least) as many as they need (Qantas, Air France, etc.) or made a strategic decision that the A380 is not the plane for them (Cathay, the US big 3, etc.). There's a rumor that BA might pick of a few of the used frames, but that's it - and they only have (IIRC) 6, so it's not like that will make much of a dent in the market even if they double their fleet size.
What browser and hardware are you using? I couldn't get it to lag or even drop frames at all in Chrome on my laptop even after I opened a Coinhive miner in another tab.

It wasn't until I tried editing a 4K wallpaper that it started feeling sluggish, and even then the only lag I got was during the brief period between brushstrokes, where it's trying to save undo history and persist the in-progress image to localstorage.

I do suspect there's probably still a lot of room for optimizing this as well, both on the app's and browser's side of things.
Yeah, but there are more issues than just layout randomization, such as forcing data into L1 cache. Even the native code exploits run locally have a problem with this.

Thanks. I'll look at the paper though to see if this is still some hypothetical issue or more practical.
please sir, my future-progressivist socio-political philosophical bias!
One of the best things about being independent: You can't tell everybody to fuck off, but you can tell anybody to fuck off. That's clearly great because then you don't end up doing dumb, pointless work because some executive said so.

But the subtly great part is that clients get better results. They know they don't own you, that you have other options. So they have to take your advice seriously. They may not follow it, but they'll at least listen. Which, counterintuitively, means you'll have a lot less desire to actually tell people to fuck off than you would in a regular job.
Also mind that in many places in Europe, public transit is more heavily subsidized by taxes. If you consider how low taxes are in most states of the US, you probably have some extra money at hand to use for trains (or whatever else), partially making up for the higher cost.
I agree it's misleading -- they're refining a coal-limestone carbide into petroleum and then making a nylon variant out of that.

My first thought was also that this must be something rockwool-like.
The media has reported on some fairly outrageous cultural excesses. Question -- did you experience these when Kalanick was there? Since Dara showed up, anything specific you can say about what was done and whether it "feels different" and how?

In some places the CEO is a distant figurehead, and whatever his or her values, the day-to-day experience is more dominated by your local crew of < 20 people. In other places, culture is truly pervasive. I feel like the reporting is saying that culture is pervasive at Uber, but it would be interesting to hear an inside perspective.
> I am old enough (30) to remember fast performing GUI apps and I don't know if I'll ever "get over" losing them.

I'm in my early 40s and feel like there are more fast performing GUI apps now than there ever were before. Windows 3 was not fast.

Incidentally, I'm on a beefy machine so JSPaint isn't lagging for me, but it does have a frame rate that makes the paint splatters far apart if you move fast. Is that what's happening to you, or is it actually lagging as in stalling longer than 30ms between splats?
I don't think it looks bad on a resume. Anecdotally, all of the candidates I've interviewed who work at Uber presently have been quite good.
Pass me my ear trumpet.....
wow, that's a really long reply for a couple of short rants on HN, you either have tons of free time (kinda implied now that you have explained that you work as a full time freelancer) or really take this site seriously; personally i don't take this site seriously for that kind of discussion because the vast majority of the audience here is not a developer, i even have a comment on my history asking this in a thread.

Anyways, i believe that all your comments/rants can be resumed on you getting offended by my profile motto on javascript/nodejs developers, my disdain for testing-all-the-things mentality and some out of context sarcasm that may or may not have hit hard on you (m guessing it hit, otherwise you won't even try to pull an ad hominem move like the one before), the only answer i can think to this is... sorry that my jokes/rants got you, it wasn't intended, was a rant i write when i first originally join HN almost 2 years ago.

Now that we have made that clear let's rewind to my original rant, the one talking about jr's pushing TDD+CI+Slack+Hot-New-Thing on everything and add that we were talking before about jr's trend to make everything on SPA's and OP rant on seniors not grasping the need for that tech.

In today "web development best practices", it is common to build things out of duck-tape, jr's like to bootstrap their environment with all the batteries included and by today "standards" this includes TDD+CI+Slack+Hot-New-Thing, which is fine if you are going to build the next-uber but not-so-fine if you get hired to built a simple webpage for a client (the boring stuff, nobody wants to work that jrs usually had to grind before touching business-critical infrastructure), webpage that barely has dynamic stuff but now requires a hole built process because jr's thought that in the future they might need it.

This trend leaves me or any other senior always talking to them on the good and bad things of being a "lego/duck-tape developer", because not all of the jrs are full engineers or have a PhD on computer science the vast majority join either fresh from college or just took a couple of online courses and were able to navigate the HR interview process.

That was is my original rant that you took it wrongfully as an attack on your belief (well kinda your main job as a devops consultant), maybe you have been working so many years in big projects that you forgot that not everyone is building the next uber.

Kindest Regards

PS: Why m not in your hall of shame? i don't deserve that honor yet? ;)
I appreciate your thoughts on this.

I agree with your argument. But... I feel like I should defend my thoughts a bit. My statements were based on this Intel Article: https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/why-efficient-use-...

Which suggests L1 and L2 cache bandwidth was the same. But when I look at the sources you point out, it seems like your statements are correct. I think I'll trust your sources more, since they're benchmark-based... than a single graph (probably doing theoretical analysis). Thanks for the info.
If you have a valid business reason for it, it's no big deal. Ie: I work with electronics EDA tools and the ones we use only work on Windows, so I have a laptop with Win 10 on it, but my daily driver is a Thinkpad with Linux.
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I filed my first claim with AirHelp a few weeks back. It’s “sent to airline” now, so we’ll see what happens.

I don’t think that I’ll hook this directly into my email, but if the one-off service works well, I’m sold.
transparent propaganda piece to test public opinion on West/NK policy
At a glance this reads similar to Interval Arithmetic in that it places bounds on how much error a value carries.

Is there something more novel to his approach?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interval_arithmetic
>I really wished they considered a majority African American community that has the capacity to grow

Philadelphia and Newark are on the list
I like the Inverse Golden Rule - Do not do unto others as you would not have them do unto you.
Without reading the patent it sounds a lot like interval arithmetic [1] which sounds like a really good idea at first but is not without its own problems. For example the inverse 1/x for an interval x like [-1,+1] containing 0 consists of two intervals (-∞,-1] and [+1;+∞).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interval_arithmetic
Is this different from/better than?

unums: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unum_(number_format)

interval arithmetic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interval_arithmetic
Unfortunately the quality of many tech conferences has gone down to the point of them not being useful. At one point tech conferences focused on speakers that actually had tech chops and talked about tech. Now many have become pajama parties with un-qualified speakers (little to no tech experience) talking about non-tech or tech lite topics. I've seen this even affect some of the really large prestigious events.
I'm disappointed how few midwest cities there were. Minneapolis and St Louis would be excellent cities that have great tech scenes and plenty of room for growth. I do think that Austin and Nashville are great choices as well, but most of the rest seem silly to me.
RustBelt: securing the foundations of the Rust programming language
Here's a great video that explains partly the reason the A380's have struggled compared

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlIdzF1_b5M
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Amazon can't create social infrastructure. They can create buildings and jobs, but the social infrastructure of a city are things like government policies and quality, existing tech worker base, etc. They have little to no ability to move the needle on those things on any kind of reasonable timescale.
In the separate thread they may later complain about Linux not making it to the desktops of regular users.
lol, thanks for putting me in my place ;)
Thoughtful article highlighting common pitfalls of rookie app ideas.
Nice & quite similar to the Katamari hack at: http://kathack.com/

Kathack has some great music as well.
Hopefully now that users will also be able to see how fast their iPhone battery is dying, Apple will be incentivized to build longer-lasting and/or higher-capacity batteries in their devices.
2017 was the warmest year on record without an El Niño
Is this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interval_arithmetic ?
I.e. you carry the lower and upper bound all the way?
plus direct access to ports on the atlantic..
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That's a good fit then, thanks.

With the tax bill's forced repatriation, I imagine Google will be looking for something to spend tens of billions on, so that could actually be a possibility.
That’s something I haven’t heard before. I’m sitting here thinking Stripe pioneered good, in-depth API documentation. What exactly do you feel is lacking? I’ve been using Stripe for years and haven’t had any issues with their docs.
Well, they're comparing kernel 3.10.0-693.11.6.el7.x86_64, which has the meltdown fixes, against 3.10.0-693.el7.x86_64, which does not.
> Would love to see OSes based on KDE Mobile or whatever it is called these days.

Purism said, they are working with KDE developers to support Plasma Mobile on Librem 5.

I wish though Plasma Mobile would get rid of those archaic on screen buttons, and would adopt SailfishOS style swipes navigation. Or at least they should make that an option. KDE is after all well known for customization.
The original website is here

https://wg5-fortran.org/

and the temporary survey result (as of 2017-10) can be downloaded here

http://isotc.iso.org/livelink/livelink?func=ll&objId=1929365...
No one's consuming liters of grapes every day to survive - it's a nice-to-have and not a staple. Transporting it in massive quantities (like enough to make a dent in how much Cape Town consumes every day) changes the equation somewhat, making it prohibitively expensive to do (compared to options like, hoping for rain). Of course, this also changes the equation if we do get to the point that many lives imminently depend on it - people don't riot to be first in line to get grapes.
the JS DDOS portal, while amicable in intention, exists in a privileged place among hosting service providers. Dreamhost found out all to well how easy it was to be targeted in dragnet federal litigation designed to violate the privacy of internet users. Cloudflares JS is innocuous only in that it --to public knowledge-- is not being used to unmask anonymous proxy users or silently track specific site visitors in a dragnet fashion.

Im not too encumbered by JS encapsulation at the moment, but a warrant canary might put my mind at ease assuming the internet still does those
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warrant_canary
Apple products don't have malware
Someone already linked a wikipedia page, so here are a few relevant youtube links worth watching if you are really interested.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOEGUAf3QxU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISyamKWhWlY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_I3o-i5t8qY
Do spiders have a natural right to own property?

Because again, that's what you're arguing.
This may be a good explanation: https://www.uio.no/studier/emner/matnat/fys/FYS4160/v08/unde...
I don't think it can be taken as an assumption that "social systems" in the digital space can exist as a net social positive. The most fundamental problem in all groups is that 'well received' messages are far different than 'good' messages. And the feedback and filtering mechanisms in all current digital social systems strongly incentivize the former over the latter. And I don't think there's any particularly good way to solve this. Even in real life large purposeless gatherings of mostly bored people rarely leads to desirable things.
No wonder the fans gear up - huge embedded autoplay video somewhere way below the fold.
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The world needs pessimists as much as it needs optimists.
It's not about not being passionate it's about having a balanced life. You should be able to sue if an employer tries to force you to work for $0. I do have open source projects I have contributed to but I have also been fired for not contributing enough on top if a 80 hour work week where I was being paid for only 40 hours. Who has energy to live much less do hobby code when the expectation is double time for 40 hours pay?
Because it would be nice if someone, somewhere would do the right thing rather than whatever stupid nonsense benefits them personally the most.
No, hubs need to be big cities. The cheapest flight is direct a to b when the flight is large and full. When one of A or B is a large city that means there are more people who want to take the flight. New York will have direct flights to everywhere in North America even without being a hub because it is large enough live there that direct flights make sense. Then it becomes a hub by accident as people who want to get from small city to small city without a direct flight discover they can make New York a hub and get there. They would prefer a direct flight, but not enough people live in either to make it worthwhile.
I never saw the Neopets guide. For me, it was Joe Burns' site: HTMLGoodies[0]. It was indispensable for me. That and a lot of help from FrontPage Express[1] & viewing the source code of whatever I'd just made.

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/19990429010831/http://www.htmlgo...

[1] http://www.jegsworks.com/lessons/web/html/fpx/fpx.htm
>The inventor patented a process that addresses floating point errors by computing “two limits (or bounds) that contain the represented real number. These bounds are carried through successive calculations. When the calculated result is no longer sufficiently accurate the result is so marked, as are all further calculations made using that value.”

That does seem useful but it's a bit akin to saying that you've solved the division-by-zero problem by inventing NaN. Suppose you're writing some critical piece of software and a floating point operation raises the "inaccurate" flag, how do you deal with that? Do you at least have access to the bounds computed by the hardware, so that you may decide to pick a more conservative value if that makes sense?

Besides the link to the "1991 Patriot missile failure" kinds of contradicts the claim that this would solve the issue since Wikipedia says:

>However, the timestamps of the two radar pulses being compared were converted to floating point differently: one correctly, the other introducing an error proportionate to the operation time so far (100 hours) caused by the truncation in a 24-bit fixed-point register.

If the problem comes from truncation in a FP register I'm not sure how this invention would've helped.
I understand the downside, but how else would he ever get paid for this?
> it does have a frame rate that makes the paint splatters far apart if you move fast

It's been a while so I might be misremembering, but didn't the original MS Paint also do that?
This looks so obvious. How could this be patented ? The real question is why no one already implemented it ? It wouldn't surprise me if it already exist.
Patent in case anyone is curious

https://encrypted.google.com/patents/US9817662
I love Hot Takes(TM) like this which purport to imply that the majority of profitable programming isn't Real(TM), and only those applications that are government, military or academic are somehow Real(TM).

The irony is of course that the software and hardware in use is only as powerful and useful as it is because a billion people wanted processors to take, share and look at cat pictures...

(That, and programmers with "real jobs" [see what I did there] happen to think the opposite, that cashing your government grant isn't a real job!)
The pencil tool could create a svg path.
Based on a web search, https://bogdanz.me/work/diddu.html might be a working mirror of the proof of concept.

It appears to contain a 10MB long UTF-8 mess in both the og:title meta content and in a mailto: link.

I'd guess it's supposed to crash iOS apps by either posting that link if it displays links in a thumbnail element using og:title or otherwise by pasting the huge mailto link contained in the webpage, or perhaps only the e-mail address.
Even worse, a patent for a "processor design, which allows representation of real numbers accurate to the last digit" is obviously nonsense. Pi (=3.141...) is a real number where there is no "last digit".
I am still a bit confused, am I interpreting this correctly? From an individual perspective, embodied tacit knowledge precedes conceptualized knowledge. In this example the process of drawing refines the spatial skills / cognition required to grasp Euclidean geometry. And the process of cultural knowledge progression does not necessarily follow this developmental order?
Well, of course, now that the label it's fashionable, it's going to be used by everybody for everything. A little like using "nano" a few years ago, or "AI" nowadays. That doesn't mean that the term was originally void of meaning as you claim.

>"This is not all part of some grand 'neoliberal' conspiracy."

I beg to differ. Perhaps, conspiracy it's not the word, but very concrete policies have been imposed all around the world by very powerful actors. Those actors are clearly defined, and the times when this happened are also clear. So we can talk of a "neo-liberal" period. After all, we have to call it something.

>"The idea that the 'Washington Consensus' derive from the same basic ideas as the classical liberal ideas (such as Friedman) are also wrong"

Maybe they don't derive from the same basic ideas, but, for sure those ideas have been used to justify it.
James: Is there a feed for the new blog?
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