skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I haven't gone through the whole link yet, but the part where they make video game comparisons doesn't make sense. They say

> When people measure actual end-to-end latency for games on normal computer setups, they usually find latencies in the 100ms range.

And in that very sentence link to a latency test for a game that is notorious for being laggy, and even then it reaches 59.4ms latency. The same video they link, even says (at 1:32) that Overwatch has a button-to-pixel-change latency of about 15 ms! So where is this "usually 100ms" coming from?

Just because of this I don't really trust the rest of the article.
A small JavaScript plugin to create an oscilloscope of an audio-context
Used Quiver for a while but it didn't support mobile editing for a while so I switched to Bear.

http://www.bear-writer.com/
Miki Agrawal and Her New Startup Wants America to Embrace the Bidet
You'd be surprised how many people have done so over the years.
How much does it cost to build a home in Silicon Valley? (2016)
Interesting, I totally disagree.

The split of Fedora and RHEL was a great move for users IMHO. Serving the needs of desktop users and enterprise (servers) with the same distro just isn't doable. They have wildly different and incompatible needs. I've been a happy fedora user for years.

Red Hat has also done tons of things that directly fly in the face of a company seeking profits. Like continuing to release your full source code, even when punks like Oracle just rip it off and sell it for less. They even directly support the CentOS project, even tho it cannabalizes people who might otherwise buy RHEL.

Red Hat is an amazing company that has poured countless millions of dollars in both money and time to make all of our lives better. Even the Gnome project may not be a thing without Red Hat's contributions, and everybody on linux benefits from that work. I wish there were more companies out there like Red Hat.

Disclaimer: I have zero affiliation with Red Hat. I'm just an appreciative observer and beneficiary.
Amazon Expands Delivery Trial That Could Hurt FedEx, UPS
Ah the good old responsibility dodging and blaming following legacy modernization project gone off the rails. At least they got out spending only $27 million. The state says bait and switch, I wager the contractor never got requirements or basic documentation for the project.

I’m at a company now that’s planning one of these projects for a core system. I’m looking forward to having a front row seat!
Assuming you're being truthful, that is pretty weird actually. I'm going through explanations for this in my mind and none of them make much sense.
How does this happen?

Who in their right mind thought it was a good idea to outsource the development of this critical system to a foreign contractor? Did anybody stop and think about what might happen to all of that public money if the contract is breached?
That happened for me with programmer T-shirts. That's all they showed for months and now it seems to have waned in intensity.
I almost didn't include that sentence, in fear of the "you're justifying mass rape" retort -- morale was too vague of a word to use in that context, and gives an unintentional connotation. However, I hope that you see I am explicitly not "justifying mass rapes". If contextualizing and understanding are the same thing as justifying, then historians are surely the most depraved people on the planet. As for your closing comment, I would also caution you that the Nazis were far more disciplined, and they committed war crimes on a much larger scale. I'm not saying that to be cheeky, but, again, to emphasize that actions such as these cannot be reduced to variables as simple as "insufficient discipline/education", "degradation of civil society", or even "racial hatred". These kinds of reductions hide almost always more than they tell, especially when it comes to something as sociologically complex as international war.

In all, the point of my comment was not to cast black into white, to exchange one form of binary bigotry for another, but to remind us that our popular history of that time has, in fact, been dyed in politically-opportunistic ways many times over. Whether we choose to accept those dyeings or not is up to us, but it's important to know that we have a choice to hate or not to hate. And that we should default towards skeptical when we have been instructed to treat people as "The Other". When education and discipline are corrupted by this introduction and emphasis of "otherness", hate crimes and war crimes follow.
I hate to break it to you, but this has already been done, and more extensively too: https://textfac.es
I'm not actually talking about an EMP, I believe it's more of a CME[0]. Coronal mass ejections would have more of an impact on the long lines, so pretty much the core power and networking infrastructure.

But yes, this would affect the ability to take out cash from ATMs and banks wouldn't be able to check your account balance, though most have local generators or they would pretty quick, so local credit unions might still be operational. However, anyone with cash on hand would be able to utilize it to make purchases and the local/state/federal government would fly into emergency mode to protect the ability for hard currency to be used.

They would also make sure that financial institutions are the first ones back online in order to get the economy flowing again and the Fed would make sure that a dollar was worth the same after the lights came back on as it was before. Laws exist which ensure that manipulation of the currency and even opportunistic price gouging would be punished afterwards.

Not so for bitcoin or any other cryptocurrency... no government guarantees it and if the network went down unevenly who knows what sort of manipulations would be attempted on those networks that now had players with over 51%...

Since Chinese mining companies control well over 60% of the network, would the remaining miners be able to handle the load? Especially since many miners would just keep rolling in isolation and immediately start publishing simultaneous blocks when they reconnected with each other...

If intercontinental infrastructure weren't repaired for many months, would Europe, US and Asia all end up with their own branches of the blockchain? Has the bitcoin community even run a model of what to do in a similar disaster situation? I know that after 9/11 every bank has super rigorous disaster recovery plans and backup mechanisms, so they for sure have hardened backups and power generators at core locations.

I mean, this is ridiculous, bitcoin can't even be used to buy something and isn't accepted anywhere useful and probably never will. So if this scenario happened, the first thing that would happen is the price would collapse as everyone waited on Coinbase's doorstep to sell their coins to get cash so they can actually buy something useful.

[0] https://sciencing.com/effects-solar-flares-technology-20402....
I tend to use lots of little types, so I don't generally end up with {int, int, int} but {Width, Height, Depth} or something. In practice I don't have this problem. YMMV depending on your own practices.
Read the audit i posted above. The contractor didn't even show up LOL
Is there a way to install that with homebrew?
Shared ownership vs individual ownership, I think?
> The good part is that we only have to do it once and we can cooperate on it;

I'm not a biology person but I think everyone except identical twins has different DNA which makes the problem so much harder since "doing it once" only solves one person's problem when every variable (dna) can potentially interact with every other (n^n problem where n = 3,000,000,000 potential pairs which is an insane number, granted it almost certainly has some defined structure which reduces the potential differences but that will still be a huge number) . Also, you have the whole nature versus nurture problem which makes biology even harder.
I remember first seeing content aware image scaling at Adobe MAX in Barcelona I think it was. We were completely dumbfounded by what was surely magic happening on stage. When they showed removing objects we just lost it, jaws on the floor and all. That was a fun conference.
OSTree (the foundation for it) was built as part of GNOME Continuous in 2011.
If pictures can identify weaknesses, can't "The Bad Guys" just go there themselves, or send their lackies.
everything in housing is codified around the naive technology of early 20th century America homebuilding - mostly bespoke wood frame structures. Try something different and you will have to pay up for special consideration, mostly so that everyone up and down the approval/work chain can contractually cover their liability without having to think too hard about it.
When I went through YC, one of the things the partners beat into our heads was "more employees ≠ success." I don't think that's changed.

I see the headcount guidelines for YC Growth not as a belief that "headcount = success," but instead an attempt to create a batch of companies facing similar challenges - the people challenges that come as a company grows from 50->150.

If you can avoid the 50->150 problems by scaling your company's impact without having to scale headcount, that's incredible! You might not need YC Growth.
It's not nitpicking for the specific scope of your comment: "how much of a problem those fake EC2 instances have become"

You can broaden the scope of anything and say that some specific criticism is now nitpicking.

Edit: A little off topic, but Amazon has failed in unrelated spaces before. Fire phone was a good example. Amazon is giant for sure, but they aren't infallible.
I keep this and ascii nyan-cat at the bottom of my todo.txt file that's always open as the first tab in a sublime window, so I get it by

cmd+tab cmd+1 cmd+f '\_'cmd+left shift+cmd+right cmd+c

Which seems like a lot of keypresses, but being entirely keyboard and mostly cmd, it's surprisingly muscle-memory friendly.
Tar Sands Tailings Ponds: Out of Canada's Control (2017)
Yeah, we don't know the whole story. It's not impossible that this is a situation involving both systemic flaws and someone who is just intractably and unapologetically incompetent -- for instance, someone who has habitually browsed non-work-related websites and been warned against doing so, but the harm of the distraction was never actually a danger until this fake alert incident.

For me, what partially redeems this employee's firing is that the head administrator was also terminated. If this "button-pusher" deserves to be punished for incompetence, then whoever thought it was OK to have such an incompetent person pushing the button also deserves to be punished.
brew cask install iterm2-nightly
The Cabinet Files
Pentagon Releases Video of Russian Fighter Jet 'Buzzing' US Spy Plane
Without the blockchain their stock doesnt go up 200%, and its all for nothing (maybe thats their perspective, idk)
To be transparent. I learned about Vulvodynia fairly recently and was blown away about how few of my male friends who also knew about it.

But yeah, I would say a lack of knowledge and a common view that female discomfort/pain during sex can be seen as just "bad sex".

According to Wikipedia, as many as 15% of all females are affected by this, yet both research and treatment are very lacking.

We really need to start talking about this.

Oh the irony: https://i.imgur.com/RSz14qH.png
Stanford University: Tensorflow for Deep Learning Research
That's a cool site. I find it a bit busy browsing it on my iphone though.
Automatically dial the police?

Here in Australia that isn't a thing, not for residential security systems anyway. The system contacts a security company who sends one of their patrol cars with a security guard.

The obvious reason for this is: the police have better things to do than respond to false alarms all day.
I was actually interested in Sourcetrail, but the biggest drawback for me was not being able to use it without GUI. Is there any way to get an option to work with the dependency tree from the commandline?
"Hundreds of top-secret and highly classified cabinet documents have been obtained by the ABC following an extraordinary breach of national security."

"The documents were in two locked filing cabinets sold at an ex-government sale in Canberra. They were sold off cheaply because they were heavy and no-one could find the keys. A nifty person drilled the locks and uncovered the trove of documents inside."
no snark: if you wanna get into YC, and a YC partner calls you up and says Good news, You're in! Oh but we'll need you to cut ties with that local accelerator, theyre suing us and we don't want you to testify but no big deal now right? you're part of the YC family now!
To generate adversarials, you really just the Jacobian of the network, which, without the network architecture, etc., would require estimation via finite differences which would require running the same signal as input multiple (lots! for large signals) times with minor perturbations to each component. I think whether or not this is feasible depends on the circumstances. Also, I could be wrong about everything because I'm not super current on this stuff.
Scrum or not?
Can someone help me out on the missing pieces here, whats the average construction cost of a regular home in the US ? In Australia a single storey 180m2 home which is just under 2000 ft2 would run for approximately $200k AUD. That works out to be $1100 per square meter or a little over $100 AUD or $80 USD per square foot. The article is stating around $300 USD per square foot, this seems astronomically expensive.
Murdoch also has a well known taste for owning news sources that have no journalistic integrity.
I feel like I could provide the Nevada DMV with whatever it needs for significantly less than $78 million.
It's kinda crazy how much money gets thrown around by an org you wouldn't think twice about. If a group of engineers from HN got together and secured a deal like that, they could easily retire with that kind of money.
Everything you need to know about cryptocurrency is right here in this comment.

“What does it do?”

“Why would you ask that? Just BUY BUY BUY”
Say what? Intel modems covers all US LTE bands that Qualcomm covers. Qualcomm has an edge on max bandwidth and supporting CDMA, but not LTE bands (for the US anyway).
OK I guess that makes sense... I find it odd that such a random number is called a "hash code". I guess because it's an implementation detail and not exposed to the user?

When I think of user-facing hash tables, I think that the keys must respect object equality (and sometimes equality can be implemented with identity, for singletons).

But I guess JavaScript has no concept of user-definable hash functions for objects, like Python and Java do? So this is purely an implementation detail?

You can extend my example to something like:

var s1 = readWholeFile('file.txt')
var s2 = readWholeFile('file.txt')

var array1 = [0, s1]
var array2 = [0, s2]

var d = {}
d[array1] = 'xyz'
print(d[array2])

Hm I just tried this and I noticed that JavaScript decays the array1 key to a string!!! That is really bad.

But I guess there is some logic to it, because hashing with mutable keys isn't exposed to the user. Because it doesn't make sense!

But in many languages, if array1 and array2 are hashable, then they should retrieve the same value, even though they are not identical objects.

So their hash codes can't be random numbers -- they should be derived from their values. Overall I find this whole discussion pretty confusing :)
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ brings back memories of SeleCT and Starcraft 2's early days. sup son?
I'm sure that money will find its way back to America, in political donations to be exact. Kind of gullible to think these 'failed to deliver' accidents keep happening on accident after half the budget has been spent.
Profit centers always work.
Properly understood, Distributism is capitalism limited by an understanding of the purpose of capital. Just as there is no mathematical system that can prove all of its first principles, so there is no system of capital that can within itself articulate a just distribution of that capital.

The assertions of Distributism are that:

* Everyone has a right to private property (ad contra of Marxism)
* That right to private property is not absolute (ad contra of laissez faire capitalism)
* Laws should aim for the maximum distribution of the means of production, rather than the optimal throughput of productivity possible with those means (ad contra of if-it-is-not-100%-it-is-not-a-monopoly capitalism)

This is inspired by Catholic principles and promoted by Catholic thinkers, but it is certainly something one can come to without being Catholic.
Goods have intrinsic value...currencies don't. They are just trusted (and backed by a public trusted entity, usually government, but need not be) stores to 'hold' transferred 'value' that lubricates an otherwise raw barter exchange economy.

Raw barter economy:
I provide service to someone in exchange for food/clothes

Currency lubricated economy:
I provide service to someone. They give me 'token(s)' equivalent to value of my service. I use the token(s) to buy what I want from someone else.

The token(s) need to be trustable, not-easily-duplicatable, should be equal to the total sum of values of all services + goods that exist in the society/economy. The token(s) needn't have any intrinsic value themselves other than the properties mentioned (probably more than the listed ones, but I listed basic ones)
Sorry Dang. I'll try to not do this in the future, as it does make HN a worse place for everyone.
I've noticed more an more people using emojis to encompass the little text drawings, so I think we're actually in the middle of shifting usage.
I'm hearing they are a publication who is right for the wrong reasons.
It's absolutely not an emoji. At best, it's an emoticon.

> Originally meaning pictograph, the word emoji comes from Japanese e (絵, "picture") + moji (文字, "character"). The resemblance to the English words emotion and emoticon is purely coincidental.

Emoji specifically refers to these 'pictures' that were definitely transmitted via Unicode, originating in the 90s from Japan.

> For NTT DoCoMo's i-mode, each emoji is drawn on a 12×12 pixel grid. When transmitted, emoji symbols are specified as a two-byte sequence, in the private-use range E63E through E757 in the Unicode character space, or F89F through F9FC for Shift JIS.

As you pointed out, this predates the Unicode standard that we have now, but there is still a very distinct difference between emoticons (which this is) and emojis (which this definitely isn't)
AU$200k? 180m2? It won't be a good quality house.
We have a neutron scanning devices. They can be used to detect flaws in concrete for example.

Powerful neutron sources are not to played around with though. Here is a 50 ton shipping cask for 1g! of Ca-252
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:CfShield.JPG
Maybe, maybe not. They wouldn't tell you either way
Pedantic nit: the FedEx story involved a punt on blackjack, which at least involves some skill and where you can eke out a thin theoretical edge against the house if you count cards, not on black as in roulette.
I tried it after reading this comment. You weren't kidding. Unfortunately, my Vim isn't rendering properly. About 10 lines in the middle of the screen are blank for some reason. Both in and out of Tmux. Oh well. I'm just happy that I can look forward to Metal rendering being merged into stable.
Happens all the time. Worst example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Martin_F-35_Lightning...
Because half-a-dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposed beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are silent, pray do not imagine that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field; that of course they are many in number; or that, after all, they are other than the little shrivelled, meagre, hopping, though loud and troublesome insects of the hour.
Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790).
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Grasshoppers#Quotes
He has the land. That's the piece you can't order on Alibaba.
Caching is great but it doesn’t help you when paging through a big file where the entire screen contents get replaced on each update. Is that not what you benchmark?
neutron ≠ neutrino
Only one way to find out! There's so much opportunity to improve the "non-sexy" work of governments and institutions and the interface between them and the people they help/serve/administer that it's crazy there isn't more start-up attention focused there.
You are right and I apologize.
Emoji — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoji

Emoticon — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoticon
It's a marginal difference, but you're not wrong. I don't think it would matter in this instance though.
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I understand where you are coming from, and you are absolutely right in pointing out that our understanding of the disorder is woefully inadequate. And therefore, the ways in which how we can treat / address it effectively, reliably, are limited.

So you are absolutely correct that it can be, and often is, a crapshoot in terms of figuring out what treatment / approach would work for a person.

It is frustrating. And I speak from experience too! It is hard to keep telling yourself, the next one will work, in the middle of depression when making the effort just to stick to the current plan seems like an thankless pointless task. Almost seems sisyphean. But., what we know today about the disorder is tons more than what we knew 10 years back. And treatment approaches are improving. Don't give up is the only useful thing I can say, having walked some of the same paths as you have.
*Kovacs.
Have you ever been to the area? It's not a soundtrack, that's just what it sounds like here. There's always a gently strummed guitar flowing out of a watery amp somewhere off in the distance.
No one brought politics into this.
I don't understand why neither site uses accessible text for the emoticon. I think they're text but sealed by css/html from text highlighting for the "copy to clipboard" action. What if I only want part of the emoticon? What if I want to find the one I want (in textfac.es) by using my browser find?
20 UI Design Interview Questions and Answers You Can’t Miss Out
This is not at the expense of the large nation state, it just limits the power of the nation, preferring to push down the responsibilities to the lowest level possible, rather than aggregating up the moment that any benefits can be found from that aggregation.

We live in a world where (to quote GKC [1]):

> Lancashire merchants whenever they like
> Can water the beer of a man in Klondike
> Or poison the meat of a man in Bombay;
> And that is the meaning of Empire Day.

The advantage of centralization is that we can stop the poisoning all at once (because there is only one place doing the poisoning). However, when the meat is poisoned many more people suffer food poisoning than would if the food packaging were distributed.

[1]: http://www.gkc.org.uk/gkc/books/Songs_of_Education125.html
In reality, there is very little realized opportunity to improve the 'non-sexy' work of governments and institutions, because you're up against either big names like Oracle or <insert official's nephew's name here>.
In case it wasn't immediately obvious from my original comment, the issue was that "Cubans" is ambiguous and could be related to commerce that might be covered by sanctions against Cuba.
Yeah I know, sorry didn't make it clear. I was talking about neutrons. Neutrino detectors are not easy to build.
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Cloud Cost Management–Explainable Anomaly Detection in Public Clouds