skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that Linus Tech tips could singlehandedly eliminate CES.
> The model has only to select which span in the reading passage gives the best answer -- i.e., which sequence of words already in the text best answers the question.[a]

Sounds like they've reinvented Jeopardy Watson's ability to excel at Q&A, but 12 years later.
While I have not been following in detail anymore, I have not come across anything significant.

Note though that making it paper-like requires just a reflective display. Transreflective is needed only when it also needs to function as an emmissive display or needs a backlight.

Reflective displays suffer from poor colors as the pixels get divided into RGB areas, which is contrasting with a color print because the printer can put any color ink anywhere. This is the reason E-Ink, and every other reflective display has found it hard to develop good color.

I have longed for a responsive color, paper-like display for long also.

Mirasol was one promising technology for that (latest demos could get excellent colors as it also did not need to subdivide pixel area into different colors, as colors were created using interference). However, there is no activity on mirasol for the last several years.

Note: I worked on mirasol for about seven years.
They're right, it isn't legal. The only legal way to acquire a usable ROM in the US is to rip it yourself from a disc/cartridge that you own.

That doesn't mean that it's wrong to download ROMs. I've done it. It's just not legal. People are confusing a factual accounting of the law with personal moral condemnation.
If Telegram did $1.2B, Slack must be on pace for a $50B ICO. What a great world we live in!
Fargate is probably the closest AWS offering.
Minneapols/St. Paul

US Internet - 1 Gbit for $70/mo or 10 Gbit for $298.00/mo. Coverage is limited to south Minneapolis and a little bit of Edina.

Northstar Fiber - $70/mo. Covers only apartment and condo buildings

Centrylink - $120/mo. Has service around the entire metro, but only in random pockets.
Don't we have the hashes to assert on?
I'm on my first job, so I've only turned down offers once, and I had competing offers.

Ended up taking a job in Denver as a software engineer. The other options were applications engineering positions, one for Seagate and one for Western Digital.

WD wanted me to work in California for only 1k more than I was offered to be a software engineer in Denver. I countered by asking for 20% more and they said no.

Seagate wanted me to move to Minnesota, which was lackluster for other reasons, namely winter temperatures.
I suppose it would have been possible to build some kind of API shim that would allow for two or more ABIs. Alas, the technical details of how to make that work are above my pay grade. I can say that it never came up in the heated debates I heard inside Be. Possibly because that would have meant the base OS would have been a lot larger, and we were targeting resource-constrained internet appliances at the time.

You could get a much fuller answer by exploring how Haiku handles this. I haven't paid much attention to that OS in quite awhile, but I think they did indeed succeed in keeping a set of backward compatibility libs, for older software, and also built a new set of libs for recently-compiled software.
Are the AIs writing their own press now?
I would say role models. I've always enjoyed reading biographies and biographical information about people with various qualities I admire. I won't tell you which people, lest a dozen cynics seek to educate me about those people's unforgivable atrocities against humanity.
I completely agree with you, but your initial argument was that "Joe Infinity page ∞" wouldn't be indexed because Google cannot index every viable page on the internet. That is true, and Google will certainly set limits on what pages is crawls and what pages it indexes. However, in this instance the articles were crawled and they were indexed and they were relevant at one point in time. But google decided to remove them from SERPs for some reason or another (age, lack of traffic, etc).
> The architecture of lambda may prevent this.

It doesn't; you've always been able to use any language you want, by embedding it within the runtime of a supported language. This is just announcing proper, official support for it instead of having to rely on a workaround.
>How do you get that the median is between $8/kB and $4/kB from that page? I assume you are looking at the middle chart:

The middle chart is showing the median of that block's fees. I'm referring to the median of the last week's worth of confirmed transactions. That's show in the right hand side of the first chart with the, implied, cumulative distribution function.
That's not a sneaky feature; it was the primary selling point when Google launched the new Photos product in 2015.
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Please explain how the Lightning Network developers solve an unsolved NP-Hard problem in computer science regarding routing? [1]

The Lightning Network design is exactly what the first sentence of Satoshi's Bitcoin whitepaper seeks to avoid - payment processor middlemen.

"A purely peer-to-peer version of electronic cash would
allow online payments to be sent directly from one party
to another without going through a financial institution." [2]

The LN design was chosen as a solution by certain investors who want to extract fees as payment hub liquidity providers.

LN can't solve the TSP without either publishing a map of all nodes and routes, or having all nodes broadcasts to all nodes. The former significantly reduces decentralization and further removes the "electronic cash" aspect requiring payment processor hubs, while the latter will suffer from latency/scaling issues/DDoS susceptibility.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travelling_salesman_problem

[2] https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf
That makes no sense. You're saying that it's hypocritical for a company to object to people pirating software if they also sell that software.
Why is GCP so slow rolling out Functions? They have only one region so far, only one nodejs and that still in beta.

Exposing Google's language in the main competitor cloud feels like a major slap in a face.
CryptoPaint: a 1000x1000 pixel canvas stored on the Ethereum blockchain
> I'm still wondering why Lambda simply doesn't support Docker containers? Would put an end to all this requests like "Please support $my_favorite_language on Lambda"

Because they can present that as a separate service (Fargate) and bill more for it.

Fargate isn't exactly what you're describing, but it's a close match. It's in Amazon's best interests to charge people based on the amount of "DIY" they're willing to put up with, and that's why they offer a number of overlapping services at different price points.
Just came off an 11 month involuntary HN-hiatus and noticed that the level of discourse is markedly lower. Wondering whether it could be quantified over time. Maybe a NLP expert could chime in?
One that stands out from some years ago:

Through my network an opportunity had come up for a "next move" in NYC.

Went for lunch with the CEO. He was less than pleasant, bordering on rude, with the waitress and left a poor tip. Both unwarranted from my perspective. I found the service to be just fine.

While the compensation and the work I had to look forward to both suited my requirements, I opted to look elsewhere after observing this red flag.
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I think the author was contrasting being a “fair-weather,” unknowledgeable investor (in the stock market, or by analogy in prorjects) who buys in when things are going up and pulls out when they go down, versus being a committed, knowledgeable investor who waits for a specific opportunity.
Not sure how far away towns are around you, but around the Bay Area at least, 2 towns don't stretch more than ~5 miles. Weather usually doesn't change that fast so its not a smart power move to thrash your battery querying for the most accurate weather data. Find My Phone, on the other hand, is probably a way more pressing issue and worthy of more resources spent achieving the best accuracy possible.

Just my 2 cents, not a iOS engineer or anything.
That's some red herring argument there. For people not aware, the parent comment is applying https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_consequences where s/he focuses on the consequences to detracts from the legality of a emulator in this case.

The same type of argument is often used to warrant banning guns simply because the consequence of having them will result in mass murder.
And they've been selling memberships on Groupon lately.
Moreover, it was neither of the 2 Box libraries I was referring to. So that makes 3.

https://www.box.com/

https://pypi.python.org/pypi/python-box/
I think intrinsic means in this context "valuable for something other than bartering with".

Gold has intrinsic value in electronics. It is used for electrical connectors due to its corrosion resistance and conductivity. Tiny golden wires are used in packaging integrated circuits (connecting the ICs to the pins of the chip).

Bitcoins have no such intrinsic value. They can only be bartered for something else.

Even fiat has intrinsic value: you can burn bills for warm.
Wow thats a lot of words to say "I didn't buy Bitcoin when it was cheap".
We clearly can and clearly should do much better on HN than bicker about whether '"shithole" is an accurate description of Nigeria"'. This is embarrassing. Please don't feed it.

Same goes for everyone else in this subthread of course.
Very interesting! Have you experienced improvements from this approach?
Quote marks still work.

Google tries to find your phrase, and fails, then tries to give you results with some of your words missing without telling you.

If you search for "It never rains on a" with quotes it will only show you pages with that exact phrase. If you search for that without quotes it will show you a messy group of results based on what it thought you meant.
Aren't DDG and Yahoo using Bing?
Theory: Because google has local data-centers all over the world (that's why it's much faster than the competition, and google suggest works so well), indexes must be maintained at all of them. Because google has so many, this is a significant expense, and to keep costs down, they reduce the indexes to what is profitable.
it means there's a first party integration (matrix calls them widgets) with jitsi, enabling video conferencing on matrix platforms.

https://jitsi.org/news/matrix-adds-support-for-video-with-ji...
Would you please stop doing flamewars on Hacker News? It's against the guidelines and beyond tedious, and you've done a lot of it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
No, that's what I was talking about too—it needs the context of the (part of speech of) the next word to figure out in the cases I mentioned whether I actually intended the (correctly-spelled) word "wed" or the (correctly-spelled) word "we'd". It doesn't change it until after you hit space to commit the word that comes after the "wed" input.
Interesting in that the Soviets had their own homegrown Apple ][ clone, the Agat. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agat_(computer)

But maybe they couldn't make them in sufficient quantities?
> you need to know that the code you're about to execute was vetted by originating site and not altered in transit. TLS provides this.

TLS provides the latter, but certainly not the former. Many sites are serving JS that they cloned from some github repo and have never looked at beyond that.
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I mean add battery capacity to the trailer which extends your range when you need it. Whatever capacity you carry on the trailer would be that much less on the vehicle. 7k is the total battery size to be equivalent to a modern gas tank, the majority of the battery would remain on the truck but the trailer could be used to carry extra in a way that petroleum fuels don't really offer.
Because it needs to have value everyone agrees on.
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> However, it still remains that the secret is sitting in plain text on a hard drive on the phone. If you unplug/unsolder the hard drive, you could just read it, like a PC.

"In plain text"... on a disk that is fully encrypted. Full-disk encryption has been available in Android for several years, and required for almost all of that time.
Ah, ok. I'm pretty sure I've had it happen with more than just contractions though, like with common phrases. The real problem is that it's really hard to undo the correction. I need to start keeping better track of it so I can file a bug report... it makes it really difficult to type certain combinations of words.
Noise/Vibrations/Harshness
I was randomly watching Youtube the other day and there was an ad for Herbie Hancock's Masterwork class (ha ha -- not a referral, no idea if it's any good). Anyway, in the ad he mentioned that he was playing with Miles Davis one time and that he made what was technically a mistake. Miles listened to it, picked it up and made it right. Suddenly I realised: "That's it! That's what I want to do." But, of course, it's much easier said than done. I won't pretend that I'm able to do it yet :-)
There have been a lot of low-quality comments posted on both sides of this hot topic. That's because hot topics attract low-quality comments. It's certainly not true that "the sentiments" are all positive, and I guarantee you that people who hold the opposite views to yours see "the sentiments" here as all the other way. We really need a name for this cognitive bias.

Also, "whataboutism" has become the worst internet cliché in recent memory and I'm starting to feel like we should add software to just autokill comments that use this word, since it's such a strong signal of unsubstantive bickering.
We will see more frequently and in more areas since AI has become so hot in MBA buzzword bingo. It's fashionable, so businesses want, or even need, to say "yes we use AI."

Even Google falls into the trap that a worse solution with more fashionable tech gets deployed.
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This reminds me of the last American Clothespin factory[1]. There have been a few small batch wooden clothespin makers popping up, but not a bug one like National Clothespin.

By the by, CWPencil[2] does carry General Pencil products

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Clothespin_Factory

[2]https://cwpencils.com/collections/vendors?q=General%20Pencil...
The most population-dense of the 50 US states is New Jersey. Taiwan seems to have roughly double the density: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=population+density+new...
“Scaled across Titan’s 18,688 Tesla GPUs, ”. I am sure that’s all Nvidia really cared about, they’d write anything that made their customers look smart.
>I continue to be amazed and grateful we have such people

That's a good thing to mention.

Sometimes when I look at Washington, Wall St., or corporate actions, it makes me fear everyone is a hyper-rational sociopath willing to seek out and screw over the other for any profit. But sometimss I'm reminded of the ones who do good for the future of humanity, not just for their bank accounts.
I don't believe Musk commutes from LA to Fremont. Its actually from his home in Bel Air to the SpaceX HQ in Hawthorne.

I see merit in the Tesla Network because everyone recognizes the potential in an Autonomous Vehicle network. However this will limit the first ideal to have everyone owning their own car. And at the end of the day, once cars become autonomous, it becomes a commodity. People don't really car which brand of the AV gets them to their destination so long as its on time.
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Atom uses 300 MB, Deezer 400 MB, Skype 500 MB and Slack 350 MB. All Electron apps. That's 1.5 GB for just 4 apps, meanwhile Sublime Text uses 45 MB.
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Curious, why does this make you want to avoid it?
Oh, thanks for the correction.
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>The real-world median txn fee is far from $1.50... it's $13:

The site you quote is showing the median transaction fee of each block. That's not what I stated: "The median fee for a typical transaction in the past week"

>- A real-world txn is on average 500 bytes, not 250.
What's your source? https://bitcoinfees.earn.com/ indicates 225. It seems like you're using a source that assumes two UTXO inputs, which would result in a doubling of the size.
I'm from Sacramento. The land that developers built on was formerly designated floodplain (still is a floodplain) but did some trickery to get it cheaply and build houses on it. I believe some rezoning was at play, but regardless, the area around the airport when they built it, was suppose to not ever have houses built on it.
Yes, that's technically true, but you have to admit a little contrived, especially as pertaining to function pointers/references.

I'll amend my statement to "unlike pointers, valid references cannot point to a null address."

This is also true of any other language which has both nullable and non-nullable references, and a way to convert the former to the latter without accounting for the null case, such as Rust[1].

fn pass_null_reference() {
unsafe { print_i32(&*std::ptr::null()) }
}

fn print_i32(n: &i32) {
println!("{}", n) // segfault
}

[1] https://godbolt.org/g/1oUnNt
Please don't post like this. It just leads to useless off-topic digression, all based on bad information or no information.

There's no apparent relationship between those accounts, they're not arguing the same things at all, and it's so unfair to call out specific users that way. Imagine what a message you're sending to new HNers to put them on a list like that!

It's true that we banned one of those accounts for serial abuse of the site, but that's all the more reason to be careful about how you treat the others. Guilt by association is not legit.
This back and forth of complainers and defenders reminds me of old time raps --where someone came out with a rap and then someone would have to come back with an answer rap.

I bet if the state were controlled by different parties, Mother Jones and LA Times would have a different takes. This is politics at work.
> Most people are still rational actors and if otherwise content and happy with their life won't start with destructive behavior on the sole basis of a substance being "super addictive".

This comports with what I've seen. Most people who've wrecked their lives with substance abuse had some underlying problem that they were trying to medicate/escape from. Depression, low self-esteem, abuse, etc.
So... you exchange it?
People used to say that Google would always be the best search index because it had the biggest index, and nobody could match Google there. Being more selective about what you include seems like a big change from past practice, or at least past narrative.
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I’m surprised this doesn’t exist as a Wikipedia page.
This is a side discussion, but what a fascinating piece of internet history, I had no idea.
You know, that actually makes a lot of sense. Recently, I attempted to bid on some long-tail keywords in AdWords for some targeted ads, but unfortunately they don’t have the “search volume” to qualify.
Well, I've never had a single reason for abandoning WinAmp for playing music that lives on my hard drive - so yes, I do remember.

WinAmp is a tool, and it still works. If you aren't using it, perhaps you actually want a place instead of a tool?
You mean canvas 2d? If you're making a 2d game, it's good enough and looks really nice. Performance is good enough in most cases. Because of some OpenGL gotchas in some drivers (macOS mostly), some operations are a lot slower in those OSes (I have a demo that runs at 3 fps on my macbook, and >144 fps on my windows). It's easier to use canvas 2d as you don't have to deal with any of that.
This obviously is true (a truism) but doesn't answer any of the questions.
These cartels sound like super agile organizations that can execute any possible business plan, in any industry, legal or illegal.

In reality, of course, no such super-organizations exist. If and when the industry they have a comparative advantage in disappear, so will the organizations.
That is why Bitcoin Cash exists to scale through bigger blocks like was intended before the hardliners came along.
This thing pushes almost as many pixels per second as a 4k monitor at 60Hz. A 1070 would work, but it you'd have to reduce some of the quality settings.
The zinc spark is an inorganic signature of human egg activation
> Unbridled capitalism had lead to colonialism

Most sources state that colonialism and the associated economic policy of mercantilism pre-date the widespread adoption of capitalism, which didn't occur until after the industrial revolution.

I'd argue that the rise of nationalism was more directly the cause of both colonialism and the World Wars.

Only if you ascribe to the notion that any system that isn't socialism is capitalist could you argue that capitalism led somehow to colonialism.
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> The 787 still hasn't shown a profit (but it will)

I would say that's yet to be seen. Last I heard they're still making a loss on every plane, something like $28B in the hole with no end in sight. But it's a simplistic measurement anyway - obviously they will be able to use their learnings from that program in future projects, just as Airbus will. Luckily both manufacturers have incredibly profitable narrowbody lines to keep the lights on.

Remember the 380 project was what finally forced Airbus to become a proper integrated company rather than a weird conglomerate of disparate working groups in different countries. I don't think anyone would disagree the project will never recoup its costs but an argument could be made that for the company as a whole it was worth it. You could make similar arguments for the 787 project too - both are indeed extremely interesting endeavours at multiple levels.
So how do you use a foreigner's name in Icelandic?
What's most disappointing is when Google tries to pull fresh content over "stale" content when you know that you exactly want the "stale" content.

This is a contrived example, but say you want to look something up regarding what someone said about drug overdoses back in the 80s. Google would try to insist on brining up information about the most recent overdose studies for example, because people are currently discussing that more, so to Google, obviously I should also be looking the fresher content, so the end result is I get less relevant to virtually irrelevant results.