skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This reminds me of a strong meetup in (at least) New York City called Hacker Hours. It's a great welcoming community that has nurtured a lot of people new to technology.

The meetup itself is not very structured in an almost perfect way for a lot of people. It provides an intimate yet very public experience for people to learn in a very safe and open space.

The pay forward mentality really helps communities like this stay strong and is critical.
It's even worse in our low-end inkjets, which are made of plastic parts and toy motors and are still expected to duplex-print on the cheapest crap paper imaginable. Our FW devs spend a lot of time perfecting the PID loops and mech sequences to make this happen. But do we get any thanks for that? Noooo...

Love that New Yorker article, though. I grew up reading this magazine in the 80s but drifted away. These great articles straddling tech and culture became too few and far between.
> Even outside of C/C++, Emscripten seems to be required in some fashion for just about every "compile X to webasm".

One exception to this is Rust's new "wasm32-unknown-unknown" target, which uses LLVM to directly generate wasm files without going through emscripten: https://www.hellorust.com/news/native-wasm-target.html

The easiest way to use it for larger projects is probably via https://github.com/koute/cargo-web, which handles a lot of packaging very nicely.

It's really nice to use, assuming you already know Rust.
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> So in reality, it's a little bit crazy to expect the Reason users to be the ones rapidly changing the toolchain.

That's too bad, because all of the marketing (at least around the time I initially looked into it) was something like "OCaml for humans". The JS bit was mentioned as a footnote, but then when I looked at it, JS was the primary target.

I was half hoping that Reason would fix some problems that keep me (and probably many others from OCaml):

* Fragmented build tooling ecosystem with no outstanding options (ideally the Reason community would build a standard tool that improves on other options)

* Fragmented standard library ecosystem with no outstanding options (ideally the Reason community would standardize on a std lib, but this might be overly optimistic)

* Syntax (obviously this is Reason's target problem, but not the most important issue)

* Parallelism (well, Reason probably would never address this one)
This is a great start — finding good mentors is too hard.

My favourites so far:

1. Stephanie Hurlburt has a list of developers willing to mentor others:

http://stephaniehurlburt.com/blog/2016/11/14/list-of-enginee...

Some resources from that list:

- https://ishansharma.github.io/twitter-mentors/

- https://mentorlist.herokuapp.com

2. I've used and enjoyed Codementor's “find an expert” for paid help:

https://www.codementor.io/experts
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>a contest with other frontend coders to see who could get closest to a complex layout

I don't know of any record of past entries nor if any participants used A.I.; it doesn't seem likely.
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Why? Genuine question, I'm not familiar with the CVE process.
Exciting fact: Similar jams happen in hot steel rolling mills too. The YouTube videos are just prettier: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVZ1DY0r4y4

In general the rolling mills call it a "cobble" when a whole or partial bit of steel escapes the rolling mill. Lots of exciting videos.
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No, when I first prototyped it I had written a Python version initially. From memory the first C++ build was ~80x faster than the Python prototype.
I can't get the GPU I need. That's a problem for me.

You can argue that it's also the market working correctly, but if you drop the 'market' abstraction and look at what people are actually doing, they're burning a lot of power and resources for no actual useful purpose and causing minor problems like this in the process.

At best, this demonstrates a coordination problem. If we're so bad at coordinating that we can't build a functional economy even with the minimal central control implied by fractional reserve banking and central banks, but have to do stupidly inefficient things instead of having even a single trusted party, then humanity sucks rather more than expected.

At worst, well. The above isn't actually true. The existing, fiat-based economy works just fine, and Bitcoin doesn't. It's inherently deflationary, it's a prototype -- all the things so many people have already mentioned. So why are we doing it?
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The frontend is actually pure JS/HTML - the WebAssembly part is just the data engine, and runs in a WebWorker for CPU isolation.

Hypergrid is a canvas-based renderer, yes.
Some discussion/speculation about the orbit the Tesla will end up in this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=md0K_eRSHAE
> Finance people especially love this sort of thing - they do want to browse through entire datasets vs seeing higher level metrics in a lot of cases

To expand on this, a lot of finance is searching out and understanding, normalizing or exploiting edge cases.
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They consider themselves a banking company. It's about the culture, so it is indeed refreshing to see non-traditional tech companies open sourcing things.
I had no speed issues here, either. Chrome, Windows and OSX.

That said, I removed it because the button in the lower right kept getting in the way of things like resizing the textarea.
What if they were buying gold with their Tethers? Or anything else? There's nothing that makes Bitcoin inherently "vulnerable" to being bought with Tethers beyond being easily trade-able and being available on the same exchanges.
Sure. I've played with Blazor. It's very raw at this point and just a side project. I'd like to see MS Research or even a full blown R&D team at MS go full force at this.
Is it going to affect hardware prices?
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It's open sourced from an investment bank, so you'll never see it updated again. Beware of integrating it into your projects.

Good on whoever took on legal to get this out the door though. Hope you make it to MD or whatever it is you were gunning for.
That explains Windows Vista.
+1 - Even though I do not work there anymore, I can vouch for the fact that the team has amazing engineers and works on fundamental CS problems.
I have recently been doing a literature survey of research into train timetabling and re-scheduling for a potential contract (using machine learning et al). Dealing with train delays in real time is not an easy problem to solve; it's pretty much a NP complete problem to find the most optimal solution. So 'the best so far' is the goal given time constraints. So I'm not surprised at all about how one issue went and cascaded. Managing real world train networks is pretty complicated because of the interconnection of so many things - the train schedules, the crew schedules, managing the rolling stock, the passengers... and the profit/loss of the train company.
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That's an interesting idea. I picked up this book, Principles of Product Development Flow, based on some recommendations I think I came across here on HN:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6278270-the-principles-o...

Reinertsen really helps you appreciate the costs associated with queues (of which the TODO list would be a common form) and this seems consistent with the principles he advocates.

One key quote related to this that I am still trying to wrap my head around:

Few product developers are aware of the causal links between high capacity-utilization, queues, and poor economic performance. Instead, developers assume that their cycle times will be faster when resources are fully utilized. In reality, as we shall see later, high levels of capacity utilization are actually a primary cause of long cycle time.
Right now, you can call a load() or update() method on an engine or widget to pass JSON, CSV or Apache Arrow data (as an ArrayBuffer) to the engine.

Apologize for the documentation clarity - this is our first release and very much under active construction!
Kind of tangential, but does anyone else worry that systems like these will start to dictate what is "correct" language. Basically pushing narratives subtly through "correcting" totally acceptable speech.
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I'll have to give this a package try.

My wife can't eat dairy so we often have to find an item on the menu marked as Vegan to guarantee it doesn't contain any dairy.

Otherwise, it's nearly impossible to get a server to answer the question, "Does this item contain dairy or is it cooked in dairy? Butter, cream, milk, etc."

A common answer we get is, "I don't know if its dairy-free but it's gluten-free."
stream it on your phone over your own data connection.

Or, just wait until you get home tonight. I don't know if you've watched the webcasts in the past but the video footage frequently cuts out during the most exciting times(probably due to the fact that a big rocket is blasting them around). So, frequently, the replay footage is much better than the live event.
this is also a vague but provocative claim. beat Node at what? what's the criteria for success? popularity? performance? security? I don't have a downvote for you, but answering a vague but provocative claim with another vague but provocative claim is not really that helpful in my opinion.

"my language can beat up your language" is like "my dad can beat up your dad."
Same problem though, the fact that the "token" is pre-issued vs election-specific doesn't change anything.

If you are worried that the government is going to change the vote tally, should you not also be worried that the government will generate fake keys to vote in the election, or simply add rows with fake signatures? You need to verify that those rows are authentic, and that's not possible while maintaining a private ballot. The only defense is to have someone who can say "I.C. Wiener is not a real person", whether that's the government or the public.

Private-ballot voting only works with the government as an "oracle". The government is the defense against sybil attacks (multiple voting, etc). You can have other systems if you are willing to let people see how each other voted, but private-ballot voting is pretty ingrained at this point.

--- theory stuff:

A trivial solution to the problems that blockchain approaches is "majority-wins". You take a vote and whatever the most participants agree is the "true" history wins (eg electing a master node in a distributed system). But how do you prevent one attacker from pretending to be a lot of people (aka a sybil attack)?

What blockchain provides is a solution for sybil attacks - participants are individually financially incentivized to burn the maximum amount of power they can, and an attacker must burn more than the rest of them combined to succeed.

As a general statement, "private" blockchains make little sense in that context, since you've removed the Red Queen's Race that provides the sybil-resistance. Most people are better off just using a database, since they really have no need of sybil-resistance anyway. The participants are trusted (f.ex when electing a master node in a distributed system), or can agree to trust some oracle (the party who runs the server). A regular database works fine for these cases.

Without the cryptocurrency attached, what you really have is Merkle trees, not a blockchain. I love Merkle trees, I use them all the time in my filesystem (ZFS). But the "shape" of the data on disk does not provide any particular benefits in terms of consensus-resolution. For things like voting, distributing the vote tabulations as a flat CSV would be just as effective as distributing them as a Merkle tree.
I'd prefer it like that though
Oh my god, come on.
The vast majority of submissions have no comments at all, and you wouldn't have to store these.
I'm not sure about using a credit card for this.
Simply put, credit cards are usually issued to (high-level?) employees that leave, change contact details, etc... so your customer lifetime value is capped by the credit card expiration date.

I've seen bills coming for backup ISDN lines located in offices dismantled several years ago. Why? because the cost was small and it was already pre-aproved in the budget.

Only after a huge review we found out cases like this. But, that kind of reviews are unusual and expensive.

If you can afford to invoice a company and make them pay the bills for small quantities, you've got a business.

I do agree that low cost is a bad idea to start with, unless you can own all the market and start raising prices... BUT in that case you open easily the door to new competition and since your customers are price sensitive, you're asking them to churn as soon as possible.
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I can't find anything in a quick Google search indicating that's any sort of common practice. Most appear to recommend feeding supplemental sugar to prep for overwintering.

Not mentioned in this guide to prepping for winter at all: https://pollinator.cals.cornell.edu/sites/pollinator.cals.co...
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Did VC underperform before or only after the (high) fees?
pedantry: technically the USGS doesn't use the Richter scale anymore

Anyway: exactly how much damage an earthquake does varies wildly with exactly where it hits and what sort of shaking it produces and what time of day it is and the technical data doesn't always capture it perfectly. You can't know whether buildings actually did collapse (and were there people inside? how many?) without actual reporting.
You can absolutely run OSX on a VM and they even allow you to do it. Running it on a production sever is likely a gray area.

People build Hackintoshes. I’ve personally run OSX VMs on both windows and macs and built a Hackintosh.

Note I am saying OS X, haven’t done this since MacOS.
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I for one already believed in their vision back in 2012 [1]

1: https://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/comment/22652180#...
you can see the stats for yourself. its under active development
Having worked at a branch off a university devoted to its online school and content marketing where the inputs and outputs of production are entirely digital, I can say they sure as hell aren't a software company; nobody above on-the-ground grunts think much about even the big pictures of domain modeling / workflows, data ingestion / transformation, computing / efficiency / performance, software development lifecycle / product portfolio management / QA, growth hacking / optimization / testing etc. because they simply aren't interested in the slightest. I'm sure plenty of organizations with at least one foot in pre-internet industries are in the same boat, and it's exciting to see counterexamples.
> an empty booster is very fragile, they're basically metal balloons.

If you think about it that's not really the case. Post launch the boosters are empty and must sustain their own weight and that of the payload sitting upright on the launch pad prior to fueling.

During the launch the full force of the engine is exerted on everything and it must withstand that force even as the tanks empty. If the boosters were not able to withstand these forces then as the rocket climbed into the sky you'd see it start to compress like a tin can the higher into the atmosphere it climbed.
> So take a meter tape, pull it out a bit, lock and try to balance that. Much easier, right?

While you drop your hand toward the ground at mach 5.
Does it support:

virtualization (showing only a view of full dataset that is updated from server on scroll)

Pivoting (multiple levels/hierarchies on rows and on columns)

Apart from features what part did you consider was the biggest hurdle? What browsers did you target?
I'm curious if you did any profiling? If the intent was always to rewrite the whole prototype in C++ then it kinda wouldn't matter, eh?
The coffee shop scenario: What's to keep him from handing over a thumb drive with random numbers on it? How do you register coins? Asking as a newbie.

And given the stratospheric price on bitcoins, what's the chances of anybody wanting to transfer such amounts without some kind of audit trail/registration?
Apparently the CDN (media.licdn.com) used for Nichole Barret's avatar is blocked when tracking protection is enabled.

Just FYI, if anyone related to the site reads this.
It also works better than the "thumbs down" button on spotify radio, which always seemed to play the disliked tracks more
We very much plan to continue developing this entirely in the open! It is reputationally important we do not just dump our dead projects on the internet as Open Source, which is one of the reason why we chose Perspective for this project in the first place.
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Thinking about webhooks... do not sell webhook tools.

Only coders with no time to spend will want to use that... and they will feel bad because they haven't code the stuff and probably they would be able to code it.

If you want to sell to coders, make libraries and sell support and services around (think about Cucumber, or Sidekiq for instance).

For other kind of people, sell outcomes instead.

If you have a webhook that notifies you someone has unsubscribed from mailchimp, DO SELL that insights to a marketing company. Either as a SaaS or as a one-shot operation.

Outcomes sell much better than technologies.
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You are downvoted, but after concern for the affected twianeese, this was also my first thought. And most likely some impact is inevitable. Signifigant or not, to our admittedly biased, career/hobby remains to be determined.
I don't believe so, the YouTuber standupmaths has an episode on a a three sided coin (die) which is equally likely to land on its edge as either face. They blackboard two theories on what ratio the coin should have, test them both extensively, do proper statistics, and conclude that neither is right and the answer must be somewhere in between.

They are currently encouraging viewers to try a bunch of different values and come up with an experimentally derived result.
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With respect, it's difficult to follow what you are really saying. A few notes:

* Block chain voting does exist; here's an example of it actively distributing real funds to real projects: https://www.dashcentral.org/budget

* The fact that cryptocurrency prices are volatile does not allow one to draw any kind of inference that either blockchain-based solutions or cryptocurrencies have no future. Was the .com bubble proof that Internet was a waste of time?

* I give a solid use case I'm currently exploring in a comment further down the thread; there are plenty of people out there smarter than I am, so if I have a real use case you can be sure some of those smarter people will come up with something equally valid

* Finally, why are you trying to hard to prove a negative, and what makes you think you are able to foresee the future of a technology better than all the other immensely skilled technologists out there? You can't. Wait a couple years and if you're right you'll get to smirk at all the early adopters. If you're wrong, good luck with the job hunt. If that seems like a rational set of trade-offs to you, all the best.
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Because there need to be national standards for education. The citizens of a state do not exist in a vacuum, and being taught Creationism instead of actual science is going to do great harm to those kids ability to get jobs, which is going to have an impact on many sectors of the economy.
Not the op, but there's more to frontend development than JS. You need to account for the API of browsers, the DOM, CSS and the myraid of frameworks and libraries built for the specific UI requirements of frontend development (e.g. React). So even if your favorite language of choice becomes compilable to WebAssembly, you'll still be learning an entirely different way of development that will be completely unfamiliar regardless.

The only thing I see languages compiled to WebAssembly taking over is development of highly resource intensive applications, algorithms or libraries. Or if there's a quantum leap with some specific language + framework that eliminates a lot of work with current frontend development. Otherwise, there will be too much fragmentation and you'll see the regression to the mean effect as has been the case with predecessors such as CoffeeScript, Elm, PureScript, ReasonML, and every other compile-to-JS language du jour.
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I'm not convinced any parameters you could set on the systems would noticeably affect shrinkage, except possibly by dis-incentivizing people from using them entirely!
There are password managers that don't involve any cloud services.
As an open-source extension developer, I wish there was a way to prove that the extension uploaded is generated from a specific git commit. It wouldn't solve everything, but it would make it easier for anyone to audit the code and know that it actually matches the code I've uploaded.
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AFAIK Columbus should be grouped together with Bozo the Clown - his plan was rightfully laughed at; he only survived because he lucked into discovering a new continent halfway through the trip...
Every countries and even regions building practices are different and will be affected differently. Even the distribution of new vs old buildings will take part in how much damage is actually done. USGS doesn't have any of that info and it's just as important as the power of the event itself.