skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the "dark" connotations of "666" as a symbol add some sensationalism (but the stat it is factual) to the situation (that the economy is taking a negative turn) - thus heating up the headline too.
Really? Never heard of it.
Show HN: Lyrics Corpora, collects lyrics from artists, genres and Billboard charts
I think Jira's knobs and settings can get in the way, but I've found it to be fairly effective when used in a focused way (and recent updates seem to have optimized for that)
Why am I trusting an advertising company with an ad blocker?
You can use <script type=module> to target newer browsers. It’s definitely worth having two bundles because the ES6 and newer is much smaller. And one day, you stop shipping the old ES5 bundle.
I think this is meant in another way: sales and marketing should never discuss future features with potential customers. Meaning, they should not try to win deals by promising features not yet rolled out, rather than not being involved in internal priorization discussions.

I happen to agree with the author to an extent. Selling future things rather than what's presently available makes sales a lot easier (which is why reps are often eager to do it), but the true value is created when sales sells what is already there. My father always put it this way: You have to sell what you have.
Here’s the tl;dr:

On the server, AMD is making a security play w/ EPYC arch.

- AMD not vulnerable to Meltdown

- SEV allows encryption of a VM’s memory, further mitigating read attacks

On the consumer side, AMD is selling on-package Vega to Intel. This should increase market penetration, and thus get more games optimized for the AMD arch.
I do, but I'm not going to play this game unless you seriously want to argue that a thermostat is conscious, in which case you have to go first.
They probably do sensationalize it, but actually I like that this article gives perspective by saying it was the worst since Brexit, right in the title.

Knowing that it's the worst day in 1.5 years is a quantitative summary for lay people of how significant the news is.

In this case, I suspect for people with a particular interest in the market (like those would follow money.cnn.com), this actually is a large event for them.
Yes, the same company sells arduino compatible RISC-V microcontroller boards that are not capable of running Linux.
Tesla Racing Circuit ideas for increasing power discharge rate, reducing heat, and reducing build weight:

Hemp supercapacitors (similar power density as graphene supercapacitors and li-ion, lower cost than graphene)

Active cooling. Modified passive cooling.

Biocomposite frame and panels (stronger and lighter than steel and aluminum (George Washington Carver))
> better and more reliable ways to get yourself [...] killed

I think it's also one of the more expensive ways of achieving this, too. Although I'd love to see some statistics on this, using some appropriate units. Something like 'dollars per death per mile-year' maybe? Anyone have thoughts on how to source the data and/or calculate this properly?
There was a interesting discussion somewhere (can't remember where) that called communism the first techno religion. The idea was that everything is build around the expectation that labor will become less important and owning means of production becomes paramount because of automation. Very relevant thoughts nowadays. Nice to look in the mirror of the past.
2.5 on the dow is big. These are real companies selling real things and employing actual people.
They might as well put $10,000 instead $1,000 and it wouldn't change things much - most people interested in the board won't buy it as the price is prohibitive. They would have to go below $100 at the very least.
Here's a satirical summary of the agenda:

http://n-gate.com/fosdem/2018/01/28/0/
That I can agree with 100%
https://youtu.be/wxU3yWAURE8
I think he's trying to get at the distinction between being able to think in abstractions versus choosing the correct abstraction for the problem at hand. The first is a prerequisite for the second, but the second is far more important.
Landing pages feel so heavy, involved. Usually I comments only to try to extract the "educated gist" of what's going on + discussion. If this happens successfully I feel like I've won time and experience.

There's a lot of outlier scenario here, for me. Bottom line problem is I'm avoiding images+videos etc.even just made a personal log entry about how my internet consumption would feel improved if text only...
If you are on a budget the Arduino is perfect to drive those because you are bare metal and there is no interrupts...
Yeah, but all these years the targets of the publishers' ires were and have been US tech companies. That includes an op-ed claiming that the publishers are afraid of tech. The same publishers that bragged about swaying elections and decision making in Brussels.
Always read the code - this is why I'm not supplying a binary.

I don't even know if this is valid within the T&Cs - but I hope it will be interesting and of educational value at the least.
Python tab completion does wonders. I know when I was messing around with blender it worked really well when I didn't want to read the code (or figure out what was missing from the API for patches).

Not too sure the "artist types" will ever get very comfortable with the command line but they can usually describe what they need well enough for a techie to code up what they need given a good enough API.
Interview with a early stage SaaS founder
It depends on your professional goals. If your goal is to be esteemed by your peers then you are correct.

If your goal is to see how much good stuff you can coerce into existence for the company then it doesn’t matter who does the work, who takes credit, or even whether anyone realizes anything happened. All that matters for you to hit that goal is the stuff getting done.
They should put it here:

https://imgur.com/a/SfdGr
Surely you wouldn't characterize NFL players as being on the bottom? For most of the recent kneeling-during-the-anthem controversy, people are ripping on the players because they are in such a privileged position. The characterization is that they are at the top of everything.
It's a great step towards making these chips more generally available. I am sure they will release a low cost dev board like the rpi pretty soon.
Interesting that they decide to publish this now. Also interesting that this is not a full audit, and while it might show Tether is backed 1:1 to USD, the timing is right before the BTC pump in Oct 2017.

What Tether needs is a full audit of its accounts from Oct - EOY 2017, where number of Tethers tripled.

Hopefully they do put this away once and for all with an actual full audit so everyone can move on
Side projects are the "White privilege" equivalent of developer culture. The only ones who can do them are young, super-passionate programmers who have a lot of time on their hands. If you have a passionate social life, external interests besides coding, or a family, your time and energy are severely limited.

I never, ever ask for side projects because it biases for younger programmers with lots of time and against all others.
Isn’t old article?

No mentions of recent developments, only 2017 audit which was incomplete and relations dissolved.
> Players are employees of the teams they play for.

Are you sure about that? I was under the impression that they were all contractors.
>this aspect of the west

Since we're at it, can we stop this China vs West thingy, as if the world was binary, as if the only relevant comparison was between those two? I dunno what you mean by West, but you're probably thinking of anglo-saxon countries, in particular the UK and the USA. What you're talking about doesn't apply to other countries that would qualify as western (e.g. Greece, Slovenia, Portugal, maybe some parts of Latinamerica). Besides, most of the world isn't either China (or East Asia if you will) or the West (What's India, Bangladesh, Russia, Africa, etc?). Let's please just stop, the world has more shades than that :-)
Explainers about the day's move in bitcoin is ever so much more amusing.
> The author seem to think that a kludge of things such as email, ms word, and screenshots is an inferior workflow

I'm not sure where you got that. I didn't get that at all from my reading.

When we went into analysis, a tension appeared between our findings and what we believed was being asked of us to report on. Our original charge was to find ways to improve and optimize users’ browser workflows following software and design-oriented assumptions. Instead, we saw that users were doing just fine with the tools they were already using.

...

Thinking back on this, it was evident to us that there was nothing to “improve” or “optimize” here as a standardized “workflow.” The participants’ solutions were already clever optimizations using the tools and paths that they understood.

To me that's a fairly clear admission that the bricolage approach has benefits in certain situations.
The median salary is $700,000. The average career lasts 3 years. Therefore you could say a typical player makes around $2 million playing football. That's gross. The net is probably about half of that. To most of America that will make an order of magnitude less than that in the same time, that sounds pretty good.
http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a12775932/sackler-famil...

This family is at the top of the opiate pyramid.
> Invest... bitcoin

lol
As someone here said, don't trust a burglar to install a security system.

Google is doing this to make sure their ads will be displayed. If chrome has built in ad blocking many people won't feel the need to install ad blockers that block all ads.

Another point mentioned is that this could be used in the future to hamper business of their competitors. It is very unlikely that this is why it was created, but don't forget that Google is a publicly traded company, if they will be pressed against a wall they will use anything available, and this could cause a serious damage against their competitors.
What they need is a plane ticket to a country that won't extradite them back to the US.
Here is the "Redox Crash Challenge":

https://github.com/redox-os/redox/issues/1136

According to the Redox book, at last count they had 70 cases of unsafe across 4500 total lines of kernel code.

https://doc.redox-os.org/book/introduction/unsafes.html
Much of India is already vegetarian and it doesn't solve the problem of unscrupulous vendors, see vegetables [3] above. So not only are there e.coli on your vegetables, but they contain human active hormones because of an unregulated market. No one is arguing that meat consumption is better for the environment, just that the post you're responding to explicitly refers to the vegetable issue as well.
Very valid point. The code for that:

int new_capacity = vec->capacity * 2;
assert(new_capacity > vec->capacity);
I'd say yes when considering the existing and new privacy laws being passed. Some of the identification and data reselling that is typical in the US is not done for European customers because it's not allowed.
She has a naive understanding of economics, but I find her commentary on cronyism and shallow thinking spot on. I also identify with the struggle of the heroes in Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, and strive to maintain their resolve.

Edit: Also, everyone should at least read Anthem. It's a quick ~6 hour read.
> It's stereotype-reinforcing.

Isn't it simply _necessary_ to do such things? Don't we all have to assume the common case whenever someone leaves some detail out, which is of course done all the time? If someone says "they are kicking the ball between each other", I'm going to assume that the ball is round, as is typical for the occasion. That is "stereotype-reinforcing", but could we even avoid it? Would we want to?
Goodbye, Object Oriented Programming (2016)
Way to spoil the lighthearted mood of a fun oscilloscope simulation... I've noticed, and dislike how unwelcome it is to make a simple acknowledgement or agreement on HN. Must be something about the voting system.
There's another step here: Google encouraging paywalls for people who do have an adblocker installed. Paywalls that they themselves will service. See https://support.google.com/fundingchoices/answer/7362965?hl=... and its explicit mention in https://www.blog.google/topics/journalism-news/building-bett...
RISC-V is defined by two standards. The older user level one is pretty stable but the newer supervisor level one is still changing so many existing RISC-V systems don't implement it. That doesn't necessarily keep you from running Linux on them but it does mean they need a special port. This new product will be able to boot "standard" Linux binaries as will any future system implementing the supervisor spec.
I think everybody always suspected there could be long term consequences from frequent concussions. I think the eye opening part is research that suggests that it's actually the smaller, non-concussive hits that are doing long term damage.

It's possible that you can't play football (or soccer) at a professional level without accepting that risk.
A related issue is that overflow on signed integers in C is undefined. Vec.length, Vec.capacity, and new_capacity should all be changed to size_t to avoid a compiler optimizing out an overflow check.

Edited to be explicit about programming language.
> There is no point to measure array sizes in size_t. I don't make bigger allocations >2G.

I think almost every Rust program I've ever published regularly encounters files greater than 2GB (even 4GB), and if I had used C and its `int` type everywhere, I'd be in for a very very bad time.

This of course doesn't mean I am allocating >2G on the heap, but I might memory map the file. Or there might be some other counter (line counter? byte counter?) where using `int` would just fail.

There are even some alternatives to my tools written in C, and either they or their dependencies use `int` instead of `size_t`, and that leads to actual bugs their end users hit in exactly the cases where files are greater than 2GB.

Getting integer sizes right is important, and it's not just in cases where you're putting >2G on the heap.
I was under the impression that modern word embedding techniques have emergent properties that start to approach conceptual understanding. The trick is figuring out how to leverage that property properly.

I believe Google Brain has a demo where they show translation between two languages without having any corpus specifically linking the two (i.e. the system learned English/Japanese translations and English/Greek translations and then translated Greek/Japanese) with a reasonable degree of accuracy. This seems to me to hint at a more conceptual understanding as opposed to a simple pattern matching activity.

In either case, I 100% agree that the multi-modal model is the path forward. It feels like there's a lot of low hanging fruit in the area of model ensambles.
No, I completely disagree.

They should have input (ie. ability to make suggestions) but should no say. The Product Manager, who is in theory supposed to have all the metrics and has talked to all the customers, should be the one making the INFORMED decision based on DATA.

Sales is motivated by making the sale. Period, end of story. They want the sale because it makes them money. There's nothing wrong with that because that is exactly their job description, but it biases their decisions. Its their customer, and they want whatever that specific customer wants because it affects their salary. That's not healthy for the company.

The product manager should have the freedom to make decisions based on what is best for the company and for the large collections of customers. If they need to change the roadmap, which happens OFTEN in real life, they should do that because it's healthy for the company. They shouldn't be held to a feature because some salesperson promised it to a customer. That's how product strategy gets fucked up.
There is yet another key value database written in Go: https://github.com/dgraph-io/badger

Badger looks promising, though I'm not database-expert enough to know when to choose LSM tree database. (BoltDB is B tree, and Badger is LSM tree with value log.)
In many ways I agree, and I very much liked Windows 2000, although there's no denying it was shot through with security holes. Granted much of that fault probably lies with IE6 but, regardless, those were bad times.
The dark web is a vibrant marketplace using cryptocurrencies almost exclusively. The global drug industry is enormous. Not surprisingly the drug cartels don't report their earnings but rest assured they're there.
Excited about RISC-V hardware hitting the market, less excited that it's $999. I mean, I get that it's not going to be as cheap as a Raspi, and I'd happily pay $200-300 for something like this. However, at $999, I think I'll wait.
Also try asking them for a single successful market that embraces libertarian ideas. There are none (apparenty bitcoin comes closest). Apparently it's just never been tried successfully, because of reasons.

It's funny, because they like to rag on communists who say exactly the same thing. Two sides of a utopian dream coin.
Yes, I think this remained the case up through Windows ME. It's interesting they didn't use a pared-down 95. Maybe they were worried about Protected Mode causing trouble?
Yes. They say they're long AMD, and AMD is doing great right now, and should in the future.
There is more on this, to be released here with sufficient interest or to be shared with interested parties...
How to Stop Hackers from Mining Cryptocurrency on Your PC
Just use Brave, everyone. I think everyone here knows there's no way Google's sandbox doesn't morph into quicksand.

https://brave.com
> Either they join the cartel or they watch their ads vanish entirely[0] from the most popular browser.

Why do you think they didn't want to join? They get the same benefits as Google and the Internet at large. I'm having a hard time following your logic for why this is Google attacking its competitors if its competitors are unaffected by the change.
There is is word for it - oligopoly
It's obviously about being able to abstract computational processes and programming constructions, as done by Developers who are Hired to build software.

And yes, I've dealt with real people on all ends of this spectrum, and there's stark common denominators in their respective successes and failures. That's not to say this article is any good, but the skill of abstraction is still paramount to software development.
Yes you can, you have a hash that is not public and only segments are revealed and verified along the chain. Revealing the whole secret no longer makes it secret
Graphics API Performance Guide for Intel Processor Graphics Gen9
I understand the fear (and it's often cited as a reason) but how does cash help with that? If it comes to a hyperinflation it will be worthless – this is exactly what happened last time.
Academic buyers won't have a big problem with that price. It's a drop in the bucket in the scope of all but the smallest research budgets.
No problem, thanks for clarifying! So basically the benefit to the TCP NACK approach is that the TCP layer will also do a sort on the packets received?
Program Manager had quite the run. It was included in versions up to and including Vista. I took a quick look for progman.exe on Windows 10 but looks like they stopped shipping it.
I hope Mozilla will do the same, only with a proper ad blocker. It's the only thing that makes sense given the two organizations' goals and purposes. Either that or they're loving their sponsorship money too much and there's no difference in goal or purpose between the two organizations. Can't wait to see if they stand up for users or lie down for money.
Its also just bad salesmanship.

There was an electronics store called CompUSA. I didn’t always shop there but I did buy Christmas presents there. Then one year they started using transparent shopping bags. Which means you can’t shop for anybody that is on the trip with you, or lives with you. It made it a hassle to keep a secret and I just gave up.

So now if I am looking at jewelry for my partner, ads for the exact things I looked at will follow me around for the next several weeks. Dumber still, it will show me ads for an expensive item I already bought. Telegraphing my purchase history.

If someone just bought a new TV, then showing then TV ads is pretty much the dumbest move you can make. The target is at an all time low for probability of purchasing that item. And worse, you risk triggering buyer’s remorse. Repeatedly.

But this is Amazons engineering culture. Don’t reason about anything. Just try it and see. It’s amoral most of the time (but refusing to address ethics is itself immoral).

They are basically a giant factory for throwing spaghetti against a wall to see what sticks. I think all they can do is get more parasitic until people say no.
They weren't technical limitations. It failed due to problems with its community. They deliberately drove it off a cliff-edge and claimed the new broken Bitcoin was better than the old working Bitcoin.
Contrarily, large customers often want to know what your roadmap is like: they want to be assured that your company/product is moving in the same direction that they are.
Sales and marketing solve this by mentioning things in the pipeline. Without knowledge of what's coming up you'll fail to close a huge number of deals.
I think there is an aspect of privacy that folks may be ignoring. Privacy from commercial entities.

Consider the following scenario:

Driver A and driver B are involved in an accident. Driver C is in an autonomous vehicle that "witnesses" the accident, by being in close proximity to the event.

If driver A or B have the same insurance company as C, that company could get the data from C to determine fault in the accident that C's vehicle witnessed... or better yet, show that both drivers were at fault and they will not pay anyone anything.

As the number of autonomous vehicles rise, the amount of data available to companies will grow, too.

I would be surprised if there isn't language in the policies being underwritten today that would make such a thing possible... possibly even mandatory.
Confusingly there was also a windows 95/nt compatibility environment released for win 3.1 -- the win32s subsystem. Many, if not most, applications written for win95 or NT 3.x APIs could run on windows 3.1.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Win32s

Microsoft has always been laser-focused on forwards- and backwards- compatibility, whether it makes sense to the rest of us or not.
Yeah what I got from this post is “discrimination against older Americans”.
Thanks! Appreciate the further info! :>
In addition to the mechanisms described by others, it seems that antibiotics alter the microbiome in a manner that affects nutrient metabolism.

source: https://www.nature.com/articles/nature11400

abstract: Antibiotics administered in low doses have been widely used as growth promoters in the agricultural industry since the 1950s, yet the mechanisms for this effect are unclear. Because antimicrobial agents of different classes and varying activity are effective across several vertebrate species, we proposed that such subtherapeutic administration alters the population structure of the gut microbiome as well as its metabolic capabilities. We generated a model of adiposity by giving subtherapeutic antibiotic therapy to young mice and evaluated changes in the composition and capabilities of the gut microbiome. Administration of subtherapeutic antibiotic therapy increased adiposity in young mice and increased hormone levels related to metabolism. We observed substantial taxonomic changes in the microbiome, changes in copies of key genes involved in the metabolism of carbohydrates to short-chain fatty acids, increases in colonic short-chain fatty acid levels, and alterations in the regulation of hepatic metabolism of lipids and cholesterol. In this model, we demonstrate the alteration of early-life murine metabolic homeostasis through antibiotic manipulation.