skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, it's mostly software, but hardware is a big problem.

The software (especially Ubuntu's desktop) is lacking basic features from even 10 years ago. Maybe there's a way to get it to do what it used to do, but I can't figure it out, and I'm not going to research for two days to figure it out. I just live with a lack of functionality until I can replace this thing.

Not only that, but things are more complicated, with more subsystems applying more constraints (in the name of compatibility, or security, or whatever) that I never asked for and that constantly gets in my way. Just trying to control sound output and volume gives me headaches. Trying to get a new piece of software to work requires working out why some shitty subsystem is not letting the software work, even though it is installed correctly. Or whining about security problems. You installed the software, Ubuntu, don't fucking whine to me that there's a SELinux violation when I open my browser!

Hardware is a big problem because modern software requires more and more memory and compute cycles. All of my old, stable laptops can no longer perform the web browsing workloads they used to. Browsers just crash from lack of memory, or churn from too much processing. If you don't use modern browsers, pages just won't load.

Aside from the computing power issue, drivers are garbage. Ignoring the fact that some installers simply don't support the most modern hard disks, and UEFI stupidity, I can't get video to work half the time. When I can, there are artifacts everywhere, and I have to research for three days straight to decipher what mystical combination of graphics driver and firmware and display server and display configuration will give me working graphics. Virtually every new laptop for several years uses hybrid graphics, and you can't opt-out or you get artifacts or crashing. Even my wifi card causes corruption and system crashing, which I can barely control if I turn off all the features of the driver and set it to the lowest speed! Wifi!!! How do you screw that up, seriously?

Modern Linux is just a pain in the ass and I'm way too old to spend my life trying to make it work.
You mean "breaking the fourth wall" a la Deadpool? He at least skirts that line in some places (e.g. Wit/Hoid/etc.). I'd probably class those parts similarly to Shallan's puns: Moderately annoying but tolerable due to rarity.

Or maybe some super-set incorporating both the flat word play and "breaking the fourth wall" all with other willful discarding of immersion? I can't think of anyone else who goes as deep and long into fantasy as he does, and then occasionally casually discards immersion simply to wink at the reader or make a (weak) joke or whatever.

I'm not a fan of this either, though it doesn't happen often so I find it tolerable. That very rarity, though, particularly in combination with the breaks in immersion always seeming gratuitous, does make it feel like an unforced error on his part. If someone's not sold on the 1000 other pages, adding less than five pages of immersion discarding humor seems unlikely to sufficiently sweeten the deal.

> Which, again, as many have pointed out, is due to the prolificness of his writing.

I assume his prolificacy hurts the quality of his prose (though that's very much a pass/fail sort of thing for me; he passes, so his prolificacy is a pure win for me), but what I'm talking about (and maybe you are as well) seems more like what I'll describe as "Get an [expletive] editor." In some ways he seems particularly egregious, as I don't know if even one percent of his content feels like it needs to be excised, and what does feels like it could go for free.

Edit: Reading your sibling comment, I'm probably off-base with the above.

> I think that Shallan, as presented, is written lazily and with a way of thinking and talking that has been forcibly transplanted from our (as in, the World, 2018) current culture and into a fantasy universe, which is jarring to me.

The dialog generally "feels" reasonable to me, but that's obviously something where tastes strongly vary. One note. Looking at:

> No, drat. It would have to be Misjasnahistic, and that doesn't work nearly as well, does it?

I, at least, don't know anyone who talks like that. Which is not to say it's good, just that describing it as "hip" does seem quite curmudgeonly :)
Well, Apple is the company that had to settle a case with the DOJ because they dared to be a party to people breaking Amazon’s ebook monopoly.

A downright scummy company. /s
Well, at least until we reach the science fiction utopian dream of nanoassemblers that can make nanoassemblers. Then rural communities could truly be independent.

Although that independence would be like a group of proto humans that knew about fire and how to use it, but not how to make it, and thus carefully guarded it and kept it fed, lest it go out.
> When you say "outsider", be sure that you don't mean the racist "tragic mulatto" viewpoint that mixed blood inherently (ie, from biological reasons) leads to tragedy and hurt.

No, I'm saying that, in practice a person if mixed White/Black background will often be seen and treated as something-distinct-from-White (and disfavored for that reason) by Whites and something-distinct-from-Black (and, again, disfavored for that reason) by Blacks.

> Even when seen as 'outsiders', meaning, as part of a different ethnic group, it's still not uncommon under European colonial rule that mixed white/black people have more privilege than black people.

Yes, in systems with de jure racism, often mixed race categories are in an intermediate legal position between legally pure members of the dominant race and legally pure members of the disfavored race.

This actually is often part of why even the disadvantaged race, treats mixed race individuals, like advantaged-race individuals, as disfavored outsiders culturally, even long after that kind of legal system is gone.

> That is, what you say is not at odds with what magic_beans said

It was a refinement, not a disagreement.
Where are the articles sourced from?
OK, I overinterpreted you and will delete my comment. Sorry!

(It was still an unsubstantive post though... please don't post those, even when someone else is setting a bad example.)
This psychologist’s “gaydar” research makes us uncomfortable. That’s the point
> my longstanding belief that it’s important to combat exaggerated claims about artificial intelligence.

I think Google translate is pretty amazing, but yeah, there's no need to declare game over. We are only beginning.

Overestimating progress goes back to the early days of computers. Seeing impressive results, people think the computer must possess something close to human intelligence on some level, because a human would have to be pretty smart to perform that well.

But no, with computers with have idiot savants.
Have you tested iTerm2's Metal renderer performance with the integrated Intel GPU?
A emacs-tiny would be nice. Emacs package is just too large to be a default. On servers I usually just install mg/zile/jed.
I routinely get blamed for being a Russian troll/bot, but after checking today, I am surprised to see that Facebook reported I followed none of those suspected pages.
Stellar embryos in nearby galaxy contain surprisingly complex organic molecules
Idealism has trumped sanity in Oklahoma. And the lawmakers squabble over solutions blocking even the simple things. It's a mess.
Amazon’s New Store of the Future
You wouldn't download a brain!
> It means that any expense you spend on Y isn't really an expense, since the money goes right back into your pocket.

If you do the accounting in this way, then you make that much less profit on your service, so it winds up being the same as if you are making a greater profit, but count the cost of Y at market value.

> So not only do you get the extra income from other people buying Y, buy you can operate at higher margins than everyone else in X because Y is available to you at cost.

This isn't any different than if Y and Z are different, but you use the excess profits from Z to subsidize your business in X.
Nothing in these articles supports your contention. The "tangled mess" is by design. By the people who stand to profit from it.
I’ve conceded elsewhere that “hashing” is an acceptable enough term for what’s happening here, but, for nomenclature I’m more familiar with, v8’s randomly-assigned “hash codes” are something I would be more comfortable calling “identifiers”, since they’re assigned values that exist as state on the underlying objects.

When I think of a hash value, I think of something that’s calculated via some properties of an object, not just a stored number.
Optical illusions have a similar effect. Also images that people can see in 2 different ways like the famous old/young woman example.
iTerm2's design is saddled by some history. At the time I took it over, everything was done in a single thread. By the time I realized I was going to stay with the project and how bad the design was, it was too late to change it. I've moved as much work as possible off the main thread (parsing the bytestream and now rendering). I think Terminal gets very nice performance without resorting to Metal by doing only UI work on the main thread. I think the Metal renderer will prove to be worthwhile, even though it was a lot of work to create that could've been avoided (kinda) if the design had been fixed 8 years ago.

As for using CPU when idle, there was a bug where a background thread was doing the equivalent of running `ps` over and over. That's been fixed in the last few versions, but please file issues for such things and I'll get to them as soon as I'm able.
I don't find that hard to believe, personally. I buy Hondas (well, Honda as mine has run for quite a while and I've been happy with it). The only expensive car I would currently consider would be a Model S if I felt that I could afford it without causing any issues. I have zero interest in another similarly priced car. Now, if Honda or others were to introduce electric cars with substantial promise in reliability, driving distance, look? I may even strike Tesla from the list of automobiles I would have interest in.

So there are probably quite a few people who moved up in income at around the time the Model S became a highly rated car and that is what you're seeing.
Facebook Bans Cryptocurrency Ads
Actually, you are the only one who has brought this up, that the liquidity dictates that they couldnt have sold BTC for USD. If that is true, then youve answered my question of what I was missing. I didnt aggressively fail to address this, it quite literally wasnt brought up. Thanks.

EDIT: This apparently is no longer a site to ask questions or to challenge assumptions in good faith to get at an understanding. Its a religious conversation. One takes things on faith, or GTFO, apparently.
> Are you saying that conspiracy theories are all true?

(A -/-> B) does not mean that (B -> !A)

When arguments devolve into basic logical errors, there's little hope in finding a resolution, which you're obviously not after anyway.

> You are wasting 100% of your effort on arguing semantics instead of engaging with my actual argument.

You're so intent on picking a fight that you don't realize I agreed with your actual argument above.

Happy trolling.
This is diametrically opposed to the facts. People need to stop making arguments like this about profit driven insurance when our system has the US spend the most per capita amongst modern nations with mediocre results.
Super cool! I hope you find someone to unfuck the WYSIWYG UX. (I'm hoping your markdown will be both, markdown and WYSI-nearly-WYG)
Nudity Detection and Abusive Content Classifiers – Research and Use Cases
I don't have a fastrak because I falsely assumed that HOV always has free tolls (except at the Bay Bridge), and I drive a motorcycle.
Not specifically, but I did dig deep into the state syncing literature in general, both Operational Transforms and CRDT's. The problem we're trying to solve is a bit different than mosh, because we don't need to compensate for network latency in particular; RPC should be very fast.
There's a reason to temporarily move from say BTC to USDT: If you think bitcoin/crypto currency is going to trend downwards for a bit and your exchanges don't have fiat balances (so the vast majority of them?) you sell your cryptos for USDT, wait for cryptocurrency prices to fall, then re-trade your USDT for more BITCOIN or whatever. Then you have accumulated more bitcoin (the premise is that you think it'll go up again).
Edit: ninja'd.
"Platform text rendering (CoreText, DirectWrite) not performant enough"

That above needs some reliable proof to be honest.

I am testing this claim with Sciter (https://sciter.com)... On Windows Sciter uses Direct2D/DirectWrite (with an option to render on DirectX device directly) and/or Skia/OpenGL.
On Mac it uses Skia/OpenGL with an option to use CoreGraphics. On Linux Cairo or Skia/OpenGL.

Here is full screen text rendering on DirectX surface using Direct2D/DirectWrite primitives. Display is 192 ppi - 3840x2160:

https://sciter.com/temp/plain-text-syntax.png

On window caption you see real FPS that is around 500 frames per second for the whole screen for the sample. CPU consumption is 6% as it constantly does rendering in a "game event loop" style. In reality (render on demand as in sciter.exe) CPU consumption is 3% on kinetic scroll (120 FPS).

As you see platform text rendering is quite capable of drawing texts on modern hardware.

As of problems of text layouts ... Not that CPU and memory consuming too to be honest.

Sciter uses custom ::mark(name) pseudo-elements that allow to style arbitrary text runs/ranges without the need of creating artificial DOM elements (like <span> for each "string" in MS Visual Code), see: https://sciter.com/tokenizer-mark-syntax-colorizer/

To try this by yourself: get https://github.com/c-smile/sciter-sdk/blob/master/bin/32/sci... (sciter on DirectX) and sciter.dll nearby. Download https://github.com/c-smile/sciter-sdk/blob/master/samples/%2... and open it with the sciter-dx.exe.
The “Decorator Pattern” vs. The Python “wrapt” Package
Copy at what level?

Cellular? Molecular? Atomic? Subatomic?
Huh, well, I do! Sometimes I might add either Cock Sauce, or Green Sauce, or Orange Sauce. Sorry that's so unspecific, that's literally how they're labeled in my work fridge, in otherwise unbranded bottles >.<
Doesn't "misleading or deceptive promotional practices" generally apply to the entire business model of an advertisement platform disguised as a social network?
The UK has similar. Single payer rather than public insurance, but people can buy private insurance if they want. It's certainly a small minority who do: it's largely a perk for some senior jobs, along with the BMW. It's relatively cheap (around £50/month for a non-smoker in their 30s), because all of the basic stuff is already covered by the NHS. The private insurance is mostly about getting shorter waiting times for elective surgery, and maybe a nice room.
The Astana Challenge – Part 1
I think GP is referencing a type of Commune, where potentially services, possessions, and responsibilities are shared amongst those who live there. America has had communes as well

Communism is where all property is publicly owned and each is given what they need.

A commune is a self-reliant community, likely to be small - individuals need each other. A communist state is still a state, it is not decentralized like a commune, but very centralized. Instead of relying on each other everyone relies entirely on the state.
At the rate we're going, it will be a while. It takes time, and I'm trying to get the right answers rather than racing toward shipping. It's a very different environment than a product-focused startup, and I'm happy about that.
Or the reality on BART trains.
> Do they expect people to land on those pages and drop money without reading anything?

One technique scammers use in general is not to make things too legit because that would attract people with a clue. Make it just barely credible and get the most gullible people possible.

So those fantastical emails about a rich prince in Africa that needs your help to cash $20m is just scammers improving their signal-to-noise ratio (or ROI). I think it works for these ICOs too.
I think they fixed the Freenode bridge recently.
There is a similar attack against image classifiers.

So is this just a proof of concept or can this be exploited in the wild?

Based on my understanding you need to have access to network itself (weights, baisses, activation function, architectural topography) to pull off this kind of attack. Doesn't seem like this could be easily be duplicated as an outside agent.
Got it, thanks for explaining that. I didn't want to download it before reviewing.
CS Disco Raises $20M in Equity Financing
These Australian Startups Are Tipped for a Massive Year
He probably means liberal as in inspired by classical liberalism. These days, the buzzword for it is neoliberalism.
Like, did we ever get this much math on a regular basis back a few years ago on HN? It's exciting to see how math is seeping into engineering culture.
JavaScript: What’s New in ECMAScript 2018 (ES2018)?
Note that the Cortex-M chips implement only the Thumb/Thumb2 encodings. Those have different rules for encoding immediates -- the rules this article describes are for the 32-bit ARM (A32) encoding.
This happens every quarter. There is usually a logical explanation is some sense of the word, but the stock market really is silly.
Seems like a lot of effort just to recreate something that already exists.
1. It shows they are intentionally targeting people in the US. CPC rates for US consumers is much higher than for eastern europe / russia.
2. It is just shady. Investors in these schemes have no protections / legal recourse as these entities are outside the US.
Not to single out Russian/Eastern European, investing money via ICO outside US is like asking to be robbed.
So you are saying instead of cashing out the btc into usd holdings they simply held onto bitcoin? Wouldn't that make them filthy rich?
So good that they offer the alternative called thumbcode.
You're assuming the severity of this news would not cause Tether to devalue while BTC holders exit into real USD or fiat instead of Tether.
VR Movie Landed a 7-Figure Deal at Sundance
Igniterroremophobia
Why reinvent the wheel when a superior open source solution is in development?
Scam is a bit strong. Do you have other Apple products? You can go into messages settings and turn off your appleid addresses there. Or, last inconvenient) resort, call Apple?
The ability to trade it in for actual currency is important. Even though their TOS says they aren't required to give you USD for tether they actually did at some point. (some say still do)
From your "source":

> In November 2008, Kelkoo was sold by Yahoo! Inc to the private equity firm Jamplant Ltd.

The current CEO has been there since 2009, shortly after the acquisition.

Jamplant was incorporated in October of 2008, one month before the acquisition. The director was Andrew Simon Davis, who is frequently listed as a director of shell companies and trusts. In the same month he was appointed director to dozens of other companies.

https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/officers/LQ_FXmuiSA4f8cOG...

The Kelkoo Group is based out of the same office as Jamplant, along with dozens of other companies, what indicates a virtual office or company registration service.

https://www.google.com/search?q=6th+Floor+Portland+House+Bre...

It has 5 employees, and seems to have consistently lost money over the past years, and its largest shareholder (and only institutional shareholder) is Kelkoo Group itself.

Kelkoo itself was already dead on the water by the time of the acquisition:
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=kelkoo

That was shortly after the initial complaints against Google:

https://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/legal-news-articles/ca...
At the time of war there is no such thing as freedom. You are given a rifle and ordered to kill. If you disobey, you are killed, it's as simple as that. Try to be in that situation and then talk about responsibility.

Tell me, who was responsible for the hundreds of thousands killed in the battle of Verdun: individual soldiers? Scared to death, trembling, half-insane, playing dead under the dead, left without any reasonable choice, resembling more animals than humans? Or someone else, who actually sent them there?
Think it's probably easier to argue to the public that this thing which the company said was a convenient digital way of converting other digital assets to dollars but lied about the dollars suckered innocent people than most bog-standard "we've found a totally legitimate way of earning 100% weekly returns but we're really struggling to get the finance for it so we'll even pay your referral bonuses on top for promoting it" Ponzi scams.
I'm not sure any of your claims are backed up by data. Is our larger society more corrupt? Is it more difficult to communicate?

I could just as easily argue that smaller, more insular groups promote distrust of outsiders and lack of empathy, which might lead to more wars. I have no idea if that's true, but it sounds plausible to me.

In the end, actually examining data is what's needed. Until there are facts to assess, we're just spouting wild conjecture.
Great talk, I've been eyeing Xi for a bit now and am really looking forward to giving it a shot. Is there any window for when this can actually be put to use on Linux/Mac? I've had a look at the frontends, but they're not very active and they're pretty bare so far. Any idea when these will be more substantial?
But how do you compute the derivative of x'Ax in Mathematica (x being a vector and A being a matrix)? What you have pointed out is only scalar derivatives, if I am not mistaken here.
I did the same.
For people who haven't seen the ads, here are 3 I seen so far: https://imgur.com/a/tsOOe
> [people] can be self reliant and exist without jobs from corporations, or help from the state. Naturally people would organise as a cooperative or a market of services, exchanging services for services, because they have little money and no corporate jobs. Yet they can work, so they can create a kindergarten for children of the neighbourhood, or a medical clinic, or a mechanic repair-shop, or a construction company, and so on.

How is that self-reliant? It’s different from most of the current developed economies, but it’s still division of labour and relying on others for some things.
This article seems to assume that we're all excited about the prospect of buying our very own self-driving car. On the contrary, I'm more excited about the newfound practicality of a decentralized car ownership model that driverless vehicles gives to us.

Speaking boldly, the difference between a taxi cab and a driverless car is just an implementation detail. No surprises here, Uber and Lyft are investing heavily in trying to get the cabbie out of the cab for just this reason.

So where things get interesting is when you start reaping the benefits of almost eliminating the variable cost of a car ride. This doesn't matter much for personal car ownership, because you don't charge yourself to be your own driver.