skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Well, stdout isn't a debug channel; you might want to debug a program that actually uses stdout for its output, not for debug chatter.

What's your use case for this that makes stderr unsuitable?
Actually, they claimed that they have "sufficient resources" to back the 2B.
Some of the new Intel processors come with AMD Radeon graphics, so...

https://www.google.com.au/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/moorins...
I've seen and paid employer health benefits bills- $15K-$24K is the range depending on the quality of healthplans.

About 10-25% of this is what employees pay as their part of the premium normally, the rest is employer paid. Stingier companies cover 75% of the employee cost and 50% of dependents cost.
No idea, if the OS design plays into this or if it's just a application design convention, but on desktop Linux how it often works (for example with KDE programs) is that if a program has a file open which was moved (including moved to the trash), then the program will pop open a little persistent notification with a button offering to save the content that you still have in the program to the location where the file used to be, effectively allowing you to recover from such mistakes without hindering you from moving/deleting the file.
I read these sorts of articles and honestly cannot fathom why so many people in the United States are/were against a taxpayer-funded public healthcare system.

If I get sick here in Western Australia, I go down to the doctor, pay nothing, get a script filled in the chemist next door, and just carry on. If you have something life threatening happening, you get seen to pretty much right away. If you have private health insurance, you get a choice of a better hospital, your preferred practitioner, etc for sure. But if you're like the person in the article, you sure as hell aren't going to die because you can't afford treatment.
Well I only started reading about Oil just now, but actually it seems to be the exact complement of Fish.

That is, Fish intends to be a useful interactive shell and if it also scriptable, that because you need scripting for it to be useful. Fish doesn't make a serious attempt being the language in which system scripts are programmed in.

Oil on the other hand is a concerted effort to formalise and rigorously implement the language which existing system scripts are written in. The author believes that is a starting point for a good interactive shell -- but programming comes first.
There are different categories for speedruns. This is any%.

There's usually a "no major glitches" category, which shows more of the main game. In SMW this is called either 96 exits or 11 exits. Those are actually the default categories that are most heavily run from what it looks like.

See http://speedrun.com/smw
Using ML to build a conversational radiology assistant for Google Home
This thinking is completely divorced from the principles and practice applied by the internet engineering community. The fairness benchmark is TCP, and if built on UDP, protocols are expected to respond to congestion & be fair to TCP streams.
> Hundreds or thousands of something is typically not a hobbyist venture.

But isn't this just begging the question?

If hobbyists can make use of it, then by definition it's a hobbyist venture. Bringing down size, cost, and complexity is exactly the path by which so much has become available to hobbyists these days.

Wasn't that long ago that a laser cutter, heaven forbid a 3d printer, was for pro shops only.
Do you ever just listen to yourself?
Fuck this and fuck Amazon. That's an overvalued company by magnitudes and just like Enron all of WS knows it they just don't care cause the bond market is in dire straits.

Why doesn't anyone mention the ludicrous cost of becoming a doctor or funding FDA pharma research/trials. Dr in the US make twice as much as other advanced countries and the AMA has an iron grip.
Or phrased differently: There are different kinds of art. You might not like each and every single type of art, but they're still part of art.
One of the biggest breaches of national security in Australian history
Yes, I do. If you have something else to say, being more direct would be appreciated.
Cisco's Talos Analysis of Malicious Cryptocurrency Mining Attacks
Volume of trades from exchanges show that daily 5% of the market cap is traded. (About $25 billion traded vs $500 billion market cap) How does this compare to Apple or another large stock?
So you think "the problem" is all the things that Facebook started doing when there were 10 million registered users that grew it to 1.4 billion daily actives?

A problem that can be rectified by Facebook, literally 11 years after some of the things you talk about, tweaking news feed weights towards personal posts from friends and other changes to allow users to spend time on the site more efficiently is not a serious problem.

And the analysis of photos is spectacular nonsense. First, albums existed very very early in the time you were talking about. Second, the photo uploading features you mention (including hi-res photos) were added at most a billion daily actives ago. Third, building a platform that allowed "a dozen apps" to get created was pretty clearly higher leverage. And finally and most damningly, Instagram doesn't have high-resolution photos or albums and certainly didn't at the time of acquisition: how are those the features that FB had to buy to win users back?

Disclosure: I worked there for 8.5 years, including writing Facebook Chat.
As a fish user, I didn't really get where the advantages lie as clearly. I am for developing new shells, we really need this, innovation is important.

As for new language, I feel like if you want to script things, you can use ruby or python, hell, perl will do and you could be fine. I don't want to be unfair to this effort, I just feel that it is not for me and I am tinkerer.
I pay Kaiser 1.9k a month, it takes 3 months to get a doctors appointment.

The revolution can't come soon enough.
Depends on how they are built.

If you build a container with everything including the kitchen sync, then that will be pretty heavy.

If you really strip down your VM, you can make it very light.

But, by default, your average container (properly built) will probably be lighter in weight than your average VM.
I think influencers are a thing. What the threshold is, I don't know.

But maybe it's one of those things that work when it's unstated. Soon as you declare yourself an influencer, then unless you have bona fides, you cease to be an effective influencer.

Influencers in tech: Woz, Jobs, MarkZ, Musk, Ng.

Influencers in other areas: LeBron, Kardashians, Obamas, Sanders, Trump, Brady, Kanye, Jenner.

Most/all of those are influencers not because they seek to do that explicitly, but because it's a byproduct of other achievements.

When it's your main thing, then you're not so much an influencer but a promoter.
> My parents are originally from Singapore, and like it or not, they at least have the law and order thing down pat.

I am prepared to put up with a bit of 'larrikinism' if the alternative is a society where nobody ever questions/breaks the rules.
That doesn't actually apply here, does it? If $2B is an inflated market cap, that's good for everyone.
Enough of this already...

If Tether doesn't have the funds then its a lot like someone borrowed 2Billion to buy crypto and can't pay it back.

Bitfinex will die, tether will die (just like other scam currencies like Bitconnect) but the market will come back after a correction.
Benefits of 3D Animation in Medical Education
curious as well. I first understood it as "how could they struggle with something so basic"
From the article: "Yes, the time spent on Facebook in the quarter declined by 5 percent, but it was by Facebook’s design, executives said, in order to promote a higher quality experience. Yes, there was a dip in North American user numbers for the first time ever, but only because Facebook is already so dominant in the region.”

Can someone explain why a 'higher quality experience' didn't lead to more active monthly users in North America? I would have thought there were people who hadn't checked out Facebook for a few months, but now start using it more regularly.
(The Groucho Marx joke isn't sarcasm.)
That's a super project and I'm really surprised this is the first time I hear about it if you've been working on this for 6 years.
That doesn't surprise me, since Bitfinex is using it as the base for their primary trading pair.
Is there an online demo? Or a recording? Would love to see it! And how did you get the data? Is there a public dataset or did you crawl on your own?
It is a very cool algorithm for estimating the cardinality of sets! Look it up!
Probably because of how much misinformation there is about them and how prevalent bad Makefile code is, both in tutorials and in the real world. They're so fundamentally simple - it's just a directed graph - that they're easy to get wrong (mainly because they might still work.. until you need to change something). The majority of Makefiles I encounter will quickly break down under high levels of parallelization due to mistakes in the DAG (try -j64 on random projects from "huge" "high-quality" open source projects). Add to that the fact that most projects use autoconf to generate Makefiles when they don't need to, it was just a mess.

After learning and using many other "modern" Makefile replacements of various complexities (ninja, cmake, scons, tup, meson, bazel, and others) I realized if you're not using exactly what the tool was designed for, you end up recreating a Makefile (e.g.: meson is awesome for cross-platform C++ builds, but if you try to use it to build an environment composed of output from various processes that aren't C++ compilers, writing a Makefile is easier). CMake, apart from also being too C/C++-specific, would be nice if it didn't require a million different files and didn't have such a god awful language.

The only one I liked as a general purpose build system was ninja but it is too restrictive to code in (requires duplication of code by design, not meant to be written by hand though I still do from time to time) and tup, but tup is built around fuse (instead of kqueue/inotify/FindFirstChangeNotification) and so is a no-go for anything serious.

Once I embraced Makefiles, it turned out that most things traditionally built with shell scripts should actually be Makefiles for determinism. For example, I just used bmake to take a clean FreeBSD AMI and turn it into the environment I need to perform some task every n intervals (the task itself was turned to a Makefile rule), in place of where Puppet and other tools would normally have been needed, but would have been overkill for my needs.

The only drawback to Makefiles that I haven't found a clean solution to is when you need to maintain state within a rule (without poisoning the global environment). The only solutions I can see are either a) using a file to store state instead of a variable, which is just stupid, b) calling a separate shell script (with `set -e; set -x` to try and mimic Make behavior) which sort of defeats the point of Make, and c) multiline rules with ;\ everywhere, which is hideous and error-prone but works (though it makes debugging a nightmare as the rule executes as one command, again defeating some of the benefits of Make).
I think the author is using the word influencer to specifically refer to instagram influencers aka fashion/muscle/whatever models. theres a reason comedians dont hock products over instagram, but kim khardasian and co do.
in other words, influencers' fame was gained through static imagery over the internet.
You're referring to actual influencers.
So in the end you both agree.
Yeah but I think there is a fundamental difference here. A 3D printer enables you to do things you can't do otherwise (fabricate custom mechanical parts). A pick-and-place enables you to do stuff you can already do with tweezers except in the most extreme cases. And likely do it faster than with a pick-and-place, because they require quite a lot of work to configure.

Edit: a good analogy is a homebrewer putting caps on beer bottles. You can do it by hand with a simple tool pretty easily - even capping 100 bottles at once is no sweat, really. It just doesn't make sense to have an automated bottle capping machine even if it was cheap, because it takes up space and ends up taking more effort to set up for a small run than it saves you. Pardon the pun, but the bottleneck lies elsewhere.
Virtual Reality Readies Some Prisoners for Release
Computers are getting smarter. They can do many stuff faster than humans. They can even detect sarcasm. But do they "understand" it? Can Computers understand a subtle joke? Maybe we could train a Computer to detect jokes and make it laugh, but can it really understand a joke?
Interesting topic.
How does this compare to toggl [0]?

[0] https://toggl.com/
> Would it be okay if Enterprise Car Rental used public spaces to hold their inventory? No. That's not how rental companies work.

That’s exactly how car sharing works in my city. Originally they had designated spaces, but after a year or so they switched to allowing you to park in any public parking space (and some private) within the city center.
If you want to sell glass, better go break some windows.
Recently came across this DIY laser projector vid - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xszp5UQLB2g. It's all mirrors and motors in there with some manual controls.
P-zombies are a bit overblown in my opinion, too, but that arises from the AI question: what is the moral, ethical, and ultimately legal status of a general AI? Does an entity that is behaviorally indistinguishable from a person have any rights a real person is bound to respect?

Likewise, the question of free will has some downstream legal consequences. A pure practical, utilitarian answer might just be unpalatable.

In the end different philosophical systems have different behavioral results-a strong believer in divinely received morality will certainly come to different conclusions from an existential absurdist. Support charities? A Nietzschian might not thank you for that. A Randian might just think you a fool. There's probably a difference between Buddhist philosophy and that of Karl Robert Eduard von Hartmann, but for the life of me, I can't see what it is.
this is just silly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCDke1qxOG8
Aphex Twin - Heliosphan
"Small tribute to Jørgen Leth's timeless film,"
Can completely relate. The other annoying thing I have found is that FB will show posts that are outdated. For example, prior to replying here, I scrolled through my feed and over half the posts were from yesterday or two days ago. Even more frustrating is when those posts are from media outlets and contain outdated news or other articles of interest. I know the SOTU was last night, I don't need several posts from various media outlets trying to tell me where to watch. I know the problem is I don't engage often enough or with the content I want to see, but it would be nice if I could have more control over what content I see in my timeline without having to engage.
What does this screenshot is supposed to tell? http://www.hyperlogs.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/hyperlog...

Also logo is a copy of Slack logo with H on it
"self destructive" is not even the worst. The worst is when they harm the lives of people around them.

People who are behaving in unsustainable ways and have employees reporting to them tend to be pretty awful managers. I've worked in teams run by such managers - it's a shitshow. When employees are routinely crying in the bathroom because of a single person, it's certainly not just "self" destructive anymore.
This is neat.

Sarcasm is hard because it's a violation of the cooperative principle. I think describing it as simply incongruity is understating the difficulty of the problem (that said, good enough for 80% accuracy on the task is nothing to sniff at).

In communication, you've got two systems attempting to convey their internal, unobservable states to eachother. This happens across a number of different channels, each noisier and more imperfect than the next. Natural Language is lossy enough compression as it is. Now add idiolect, prosody, body language, context. And on top of that, the internal states of the two systems may only be alignable along the coarsest axes to begin with (do we share the same qualia?). The only way we can have any hope of understanding eachother is when we know both sides are trying their best to make themselves understood, as per Grice's maxims.

Sarcasm is a form of dissembly, a deliberate subversion of the cooperative principle, that words mean things, for other means. Sometimes to communicate to others, who are not the target. Sometimes for the communicator's own personal satisfaction. Sometimes it's meant to be understood, but the drier the sarcasm, the fewer hints are given.

And at the same time, in some cases, a sarcastic utterance is the most concise way of conveying information, if it is correctly received. Because acting in violation of typically observed rules of conversation carries its own set of semantics. It's another mode of communicating, and all of these different modes capture different lower-dimensional slices of the hyper-thing of mind-state and intent that they're purporting to convey.

All that to say, that elsewhere in these comments, the problem has been described as AI Complete. I'd go a step further, and say that it's telepath-complete, to know the intent of another, and even then, knowing the accurate truth of the thing by oracle might end you up with less Information than if you'd just gotten the joke in the first place.
Sure, here: https://imgur.com/a/udfB5

(And before anyone inevitably objects: yes, I get that you might actually like the downsized version better. Personally I didn't like a random reddish hue being added to the golden scene, but it's obviously a matter of taste, so let's not judge me here. The point isn't which one looks better, but that they shouldn't look so dramatically visibly different in the first place.)
Afaik wash trades aren't illegal, you just can't use the losses to lower your taxes.

So nothing wrong with my trades.
is art defined by intent or interpretation?
Fair point. I think what those people can do is "bring awareness" to a brand, etc.. but not make people buy it because of them. If they like it, they'll buy it because of the value the product offers rather than because instagrammer X had it --thought it may be the case in some areas.

In other words their value may be in "surfacing" something. Akin to ranking something higher on SERPs.
False, it is fully peer to peer. The browser, even with WebRTC, can't do full P2P, but that isn't gun's fault, because if you run a NodeJS peer it can and will be fully P2P. And you can you mix these together.
Ask HN: At which companies do programmers work less than 7 hours a day?
It's pretty hard to find information on work hours for companies. Also since obviously the work hours on a particular day depends if you are in a busy period or not, I think an average across 6 months would be a pretty good estimate.
maybe I have been looking at datacenters too much lately but I think you could probably achieve the same thing and better scale + performance with something like VXLAN EVPN down to the switch instead of vlan per user. the end user would have interesting stuff like MAC mobility too so it would be suitable for the staff and servers as well as student network

edit: yeah that would be awesome, you could move a VM from a server to your laptop with minimal interruption

https://www.juniper.net/documentation/en_US/junos/topics/con...
https://youtu.be/QKO6IChjojI
Computers will understand language like boats swim.
That gives actively misleading information in two cases: if two vendors have different standards for vulnerabilities (e.g., is a tab crash a DoS or just a thing that happens sometimes) and if one vendor is more active at actually looking to find vulnerabilities (or incentivizing others to do so) than another. Both of those problems, inverted, make the metric easily gameable in awful ways: you're encouraging vendors to have a high bar for what counts as a security bug and you're encouraging them not to look.

A little more fundamentally, vulnerability counts don't provide a great measure of security architecture: whether defense-in-depth and least privilege are good at mitigating the impact of bugs. If, say, you have a JS PNG decoder and once a year someone finds a way for a malicious PNG to run arbitrary JS within the usual web JS sandbox, that's probably way better than having an unsandboxed native-code PNG decoder and once every three years someone finds a way for a malicious PNG to run arbitrary code on the host. (Maybe you can do something involving weighting vulnerabilities by CVSS score or something.)
>But with JS you don't need to wait for your code to compile so you can test it much quicker.

This is no loner a valid criticism as any decent IDE (or a mature Code Editor) can run static analysis as you type and warn you abut issue, before you even compile.

Source: VsCode does static analysis on TypeScript.
I’m not convinced.

Good computer chess play is based on a deterministic tree walking algorithm, something that’s been clearly in computers’ wheelhouse since forever.

Good computer go play is based on neural pattern recognition, which is also (probably) what human sarcasm detection is based on.
"There is (always has been) an alternative — It’s called “Genuine Thought Leadership”...
The concept of “thought leadership” is completely different than “influencing” anything or anyone. In fact, I would argue it’s the exact opposite. Because while influencers are about follower numbers, thought leaders are about expertise and knowledge." -top highlight
GDC Rescinds Atari Founder Nolan Bushnell's Pioneer Award After #MeToo Protests
https://cumberlandmining.com

Note: they have a $100k min
I was a programmer on Diablo 2 and used the Diablo 1 source code as a starting point for some features - all of the source files I looked at had David Brevik as the author, it was very straightforward C that one person could keep in their head.
I don't know if it's just me, but I don't feel like I'm using a computer when using Windows. After using OpenBSD exclusively for weeks (my laptop broke, so I had to repurpose an old netbook with OpenBSD), I felt bored and limited in Windows.
I tried Powershell, but -mostly because I don't know much about it- it didn't give the same feeling.

The thing that is working for me is to explore VB.net . It is really an interesting language with many historical features. I've noticed that all the languages I use (Python, C#, Java, Go, etc.) distracted me from the essence of programming.
When I started programming I immidiately thought about patterns, architecture, unit-tests, integration-test etc.

In VB.net I feel like I'm slowly reexperiencing the joy I've felt in my earlier days of programming.
How to Craft Precisely the Right Messaging for Your Market
> At this point, I wonder what their business model is.

Same as silicon valley, keep growing to attract more and more venture capital, worry about profitability later.
>This sounds like something Geordi LaForge would say.

Precisely why optics is the coolest shit ever
Side note, is there a name for a type of humor where you are being facetious and serious at the same time?

That's kind of my go-to, and I'd say about 20% of people overall don't get it. I hear "I can't tell if you are joking or not" all the time. I personally think both is a reasonable answer, but if we aren't able to teach people how such a sense of humor works, I don't have much hope for training an AI.
How Union Pool Became the Horny Utopia of 2000s Williamsburg
Code Review Isn't Evil. Security Through Obscurity Is
Private Censorship Is Not the Best Way to Fight Hate or Defend Democracy
From 1964 - The Girl who Spoke to Dolphins.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnVAv77gEqo

You can hear an attempt by the dolphin to mimic. Very unclear though. Perhaps the whole doco has better examples.
Have you tried Dolphin Bacon?