skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
After getting a new PC with Windows 10, I tried WSL and I found a scarily easy to smash foreign file system, no obvious way to update the offered Ubuntu version, and incompatibility with GUI applications except for experimental X server tricks.

In other words, both Cygwin and a Linux VM with properly shared folders appear easier to use and more useful in practice than WSL; I have no idea of what Linux software is worth running under WSL despite these limitations.

Emacs, Node.js, Bash, Python, Git and many other important tools have good Windows versions, while almost everything popular is available in a package or easy to compile, and in both cases much more dependable, under Cygwin.
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That is not an operating system installation, rather it’s just the ZFS pool storage setup; you could import it later in any OS which has ZFS. There isn’t anything to install with SmartOS and I should know, I build my own version of it.

The document even tells you that this is not an installer:

“This is not an installer and does not install the live image. The script is simply for data setup. You will still need to boot from live media.”

Whoever can read is at a distinct advantage.
I do tech DD for a living and from my own experience it is very hard to fudge the record for someone who deals with this kind of thing regularly.

I thought I had covered any fears about source exposure and being believable with my two suggestions for who could do this.

> That happening would actually lend credence to the claim that Wikileaks is redacting for political reasons.

Openleaks and the Intercept come to mind.
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Not sure why you're getting downvoted. Razer doesn't have to care about Linux.
Is your homepage built using Haiku?
I agree 100%. The US university system treats the students as kindergarten.
As one of the recent newcomers, should I feel defensive when I read something like this? I understand there are people with much more knowledge. Isn't this true of everyone, in every field?

The message I've gotten is "try things out". Innovation isn't necessarily improving specific techniques, but applying them to new fields. To apply techniques to things that are more mundane like data processing in non-AI-focused companies, you're gonna need bodies who know how to apply these newer programming techniques to solve problems.

Not every electrician has to understand electrical engineering.
If you're a DOE project at a lab and you need compute, they aren't willing to give you money to purchase hardware or cloud unless you have an extremely compelling reason why you need to do that, and "Our software doesn't support GPUs/KNL/the Cray OS" isn't a valid excuse. They don't want you buying pizza boxes and they don't want you using cloud, they want you using the supercomputers they've already sunk money in. Small NSF projects are probably fine to do what they want, 50M+ range is probably where they kick you off to an XSEDE service provider.
> I don’t understand why HN is unwilling to countenance this, but let me put it this way - Can America afford to antagonize China ?

It's antagonising all year round - US military presence in Japan and Korea, continuous arm sales and pushing the envelope on unofficial relations with Taiwan, support of Japans claim to the Senkakus, "Freedom of Navigation" exercises in defiance of chinas maritime claims, opening up military relations with Vietnam.

Again, China is not the USSR. There's no "Korean missile crisis" where China can provoke an international crisis if the US decides to park ballistic missiles in its near abroad. There's no equivalent of a Warsaw block. The US has an entanglement of military alliances and relations all around Chinas backyard.

China is not a superpower.
I suspect it used to back when Netflix was more of an archive of "classics" and less supplier of their own content.

Also, it depends a bit on where in the world you lived. Netflix for the most part was a US phenomena, and even as it spread elsewhere the library offered often lagged what was found in the US. So people would use proxies and similar to access the US library from abroad.
Seattle Times likes to give Amazon bad press. Seattle has enough other tech companies to absorb a few hundred jobs. Companies routinely end up over-hiring or having redundant positions. It appears that they are laying off less than 10% of their Seattle staff, while they are still expanding the amount of office space they occupy in Seattle.

This seems like no big deal for Seattle and Amazon.
Urbit's ambition is to achieve something that fosters that ability.
Some can have all the safeties removed with a knife.

I wonder what disaster prompted so much grief. Not like any kids would get very far trying to drink it.
It is a joke, but not completely without any connection to reality: Sometimes, in astrophysics, you are happy if you get the order of magnitude correct to an order of magnitude.
Same for me. Just music torrenting was replaced by my Spotify subscription. For the very few things that arent there (e.g. Joanna Newsom) I just use Youtube.
Progress is messy.
Yes me too would you like to know about this specific idea.
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/We-Really-Dont-Know-How-... is the version of the talk I've seen. Highly recommended to everyone.

I have yet to get his classical mechanics book. Gonna have to pull the trigger on that soon.
We do this all the time with our kids. eg Halloween: you can eat <large percentage> your sweets now but we will eat the rest when you've gone to bed, or you can have <smaller percentage> now but have some left for tomorrow and the rest of the week.

Our eldest (he's 4 now but we've been doing it for a couple of years) responds really well to that. In fact a 100% pass rate so far. Which is unusual for a boy of that age from what I've read.
Yeah, the gas can stuff is insane. I ran out of gas a few months ago, and a friend drove to the gas station to grab a can and come to my rescue. Anyways, we spilled about 2 gallons of a 5 gallon jug before we figured out how to work the nozzle. If the nozzle wasn't pressed just right, gas would leak out of joints and threaded bits instead of the nozzle end. I threw the can away 5 minutes later at the gas station.
The title sounded pretty objective, but the article itself is pure flamebait.

Preaching to a choir is divisive and counterproductive.
ULA isn't even mentioned in that RFC? (Presumably because ULA was standardized half a year later?)
Chinese government figures are not a reliable source, given their extensive and documented history of fudging the numbers.

It's slightly better than an anecdote, I suppose.
We still don’t document it exactly, but [1] shows that bfloat16 is supported on lots of ops.

[1] https://cloud.google.com/tpu/docs/tensorflow-ops
Alienware 17 r4
ngrok.com (freemium) or https://github.com/mmatczuk/go-http-tunnel (open source, needs some afford, very fast and easy configurable)

btw. @op go-http-tunnel would provides you with great base for a "branded" ngrok like client for your users.
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> a succession of endless, snaking queues where passengers are laboriously urged forward like some indigestible, resented lump of food in a small intestine.

I always appreciate it when journalists choose to add some verve to their prose.
A lesson I've learned the hard way, from using Sqlite in many apps I've written, is that if you need any kind of insert performance you can't abstract away the transaction model, and retrofitting transactions onto an application which previously ignored them is not easy either. You really have to design for it up front.

Mainly this is because there is at most one, global transaction per Sqlite database (in other words you can't nest transactions), but also because the optimum window to gather up inserts for a bulk transaction might not match up well with the logical function call structure of you program. I recently learned about the Sqlite SAVEPOINT feature; this might help implement nested-transactions, but cannot help with the second problem.

For example, what if you made a "logging.db" file for a GUI application, and you're grouping writes to a log table in batches of 50 for each INSERT transaction. What happens if your GUI app gets to 48 inserts but then stops receiving user interaction events? You'd probably still want those 48 inserts to show up (eventually) in the logging.db rather than just being "lost" if the app subsequently crashes. So what do you do? Register a timer event to create a watchdog to flush the transaction if enough time goes by? OTOH what if a subroutine of your app is actually at that moment performing a lengthy "real" (logical) transaction and wouldn't want it flushed? Or maybe the application should use different database files for logging versus data where consistency is vital (so that a database can be opened either in "accumulate INSERTs" mode or "real logical transactions" mode)?

My point is not the detail of how to answer those questions; it is just to highlight that these are questions which have to be thought about at a whole-application architecture level.
I've noticed as a techie that I've actually run behind a batch of what you call normies, that decided to quit or entirely restrict their FB activity many years ago due to unwanted social drama / conflict.

About ~8-10% of my Facebook friends quit over a four or five year span. Typically not long after joining Facebook and beginning to contribute (within a year or so). Those accounts have all just been sitting there quasi-dead with blank images, for many years (although they're still on my friends list, and no doubt counted by FB as a user (but not a MAU)). None of them have ever come back alive.
Purely from principles, one might consider it important to credit people for the ideas that they contributed.

From a practical sense, it gives readers a way to find it for themselves -- contact the author that cited it.
Bitcoin has simply anonymized the middle man. You're still expected to pay a transaction fee to miners. It'll never be cheaper than a centralized solution so there will never be a cost reduction.
A little late in replying, but the fact I had never heard of K-9 until this HN post kinda proves my point about name recognition. Last year I actually tried 5 or more different Android clients. I didn't try K-9, if it I even saw it. I must have judged it as untrustworthy or not worth trying for some reason.
Et-al's Law: "All interactions on social media will be scripted by bots"

If you add Atwood's Law to this, all social media interactions will be scripted by bots written in Javascript.

Then the brain-bender: What if you are that bot?
Instacart is going to get slaughtered. If it was public, it would be in a GTZ (Go to Zero) basket. Its business has a critical flaw that was only kind of workable when Amazon did not own WF.

Amazon WF same day delivery would be picked from WF stores by the people who work in those stores and are trained in those stores, not Joe Random Gig Worker who does not know how swiss chard is different from the rainbow chard, and AMF would do it for no markup to WF price.

Vertical integration in the last mile grocery business would crush anyone who is not vertically integrated. The only way for non vertically-intergrated Instacart to complete is to pivot into SaaS business selling its platform to the independent store operators for something like $1 per order but there's just no way $1 per order software platform would command that valuation.
It's probably the politics that led to the roughly 50% rise in cost of living across the state in the last decade.

There is little comfort to be had when you're losing your home and car because someone tells you that at least the homeless shelters and public transit are much better now.

They hate you, because they see you as a giant economic jackboot stepping on the face of the poor forever.
I know from experience that different headphones with similar frequency response can sound radically different. Most reviewers don't measure anything else, so that doesn't really help.
It’s not just California, but Europe, Japan, China, ...

China, for example, is being very very aggressive in making EVs standard.
What is the typical use-case of a unit smaller than the smallest tradable currency unit? Mind you, I understand there are smaller units than the circulated currency (For the USD you have a mill which is 1/10 of a cent).
You would do what larger groups do and vote. Like a defacto board.
That feels about right and would seem to be consistent with both my own preferences and my observations on the Acela in the US Northeast Corridor. The two halves of the corridor (north and south from New York City) are heavily traveled by train and a lot of people prefer the ~3.5 hour trip to flying.

However, my impression is that relatively few take it all the way from Boston to Washington DC. It's still about the same 1 hour flight that the shorter legs would be by air but now it's basically a full day of train travel. I've done it when I've just been happy to work on the train but it doesn't really make a lot of sense most of the time.
He updated his web site quite recently though:

https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/news.html

"2018 began for me with an absolutely incredible 80th birthday celebration called Knuth80, held in the delightful city of Piteå in northern Sweden. ..."

So maybe he's just using that email-via-printouts thing as a ruse to avoid having to answer to emails from "important people" expediently? I would totally pull that move if I could.
In my case, iTunes doesn’t work in linux.
Saying “we charge markups, but we won’t tell you what they are” is still not sufficiently transparent, in my opinion. Yes, Amazon and grocery stores do the same thing (at face value, anyway) by not disclosing their COGS. But the key difference is that my next-best alternative to Instacart is to just go to the grocery store myself. My next-best alternative to getting something delivered from Amazon isn’t to get it more cheaply from a brick-and-mortar Amazon store, or to buy it directly from their suppliers - it’s to get it from a different retailer entirely, and I can trivially compare all-in prices between other retailers and Amazon. So I can easily assess whether it makes sense from a cost/benefit perspective to buy something on Amazon, but I can’t make the same assessment for Instacart.

I do think the service creates value. But I still hope that, at the very least, it soon faces enough competition that it’s at least forced to be fully transparent about the cost of its service. I want to see one number - the difference between what an order of groceries costs me on Instacart all-in, and what it would cost me to go to the grocery store and purchase the same items myself. As long as I can’t trivially find or calculate that number, I won’t use Instacart again.
Chrome provides the WebUSB API for example: https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2016/03/access-usb...
I guess that Synaptics driver was triply bad. I could see the memory leak in its process, and I could see the CPU usage it was triggering, but at the time I did not realize it was creating zombies. Wow.
Oh, that's an excellent point too! Bass boost and loudness buttons on stereos are meant to give you a way to make music sound the same at a lower volume, but most people just set it and forget it.

With fully digital players, I guess there's no reason to not have dynamic EQs that adjust along with the volume. I'd think you'd see this more often, but I guess even basic EQs aren't available most of the time, so it's just not a feature that most people would care about.
Great. So that boils down to "skills." Which is essentially what this very active thread is implicitly all about.

But here's the problem. While everyone is arguing back and forth about competing against Wall St., game theory, probability and the quibbling over "gambling" which turns out to be nothing more than a convention in conversation (others below admit that index funds and housing are also betting, but to a lesser degree), what no one is addressing is what specific trading strategies we're competing against here.

IF you are a day trader and you compete against other retail day traders and Wall Street trading floors, automated trading systems, high frequency and such, that's one thing. IF you stock pick but pick your stocks for multi-quarter or yearly outlooks, and you absorb information about -- not the stocks -- the companies, following news and understanding what their risks are, then that is a totally different strategy.

Much of Wall St. cares across quarters and short-term. Many retail investors too. I would only advocate medium and long-term stock picking.

Everyone brings up Buffett and his advocating of index funds. What no one here has mentioned is that he's a value investor, buying up stocks when companies are, in his estimation, undervalued.

You folks are guilty of sweeping the individual under the rug in favor of the overall statistics. As if the individual who wishes to buck the trend is, at best, lucky, and at worst, an imbecile.

If you're not interested in the area of stock picking, then that's understandable. But if you're pre-emptively convinced that you can never win, because your knowledge is average, well I suggest that if you're an intelligent person that you reconsider. Again, no one here is advocating day trading or beating Wall St at their own game.

You are missing out by not taking a chance on companies that you think might expand in the coming years. Nothing is guaranteed, and I think many folks on here seem to miss that part of the equation.
They are squeezing every last drop out of their userbase, but the numbers do not lie. Decreasing DAU/MAU in their most profitable demographics means that their revenue numbers will eventually suffer.
It depends. We got a few machines with AMD RX460s (Or similar, I can't remember exactly) and the users wanted Ubuntu on them.

So I install 16.04, the most recent LTS release available because I don't want these machines to turn into a pumpkin after less than 9 months but the graphics are a total fail. SVGA 800x600 only.

So the kernel on that release is too old and updating the kernel on Ubuntu is fraught with peril. So I look into third party drivers and find that their support was dropped entirely from even the third party Ubuntu support. So I go to ATI/AMD's website and find the driver package, but it turns out to be a tarball full of .debs with zero instructions on how to install or enable them. I was having flashbacks to working on Linux installs in the late 90s and having to hack everything to get it working.

In the end I had to install 17.10 and apply the hacks to make it work[1] just to get the graphics running, and now I'm going to have to revisit those machines in a couple of months to upgrade them to 18.04.

[1] Disabling the new systemd DNS resolver that crashes on literally every lookup attempt on our network. Also had to learn how to program the modeline equivalent for Weyland for when you're going through a KVM and don't have EDID. This was no picnic in later versions of X, but I had already figured it out and had earlier versions as reference. I still miss xconfig sometimes.
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Chargebee. It does pretty much everything you can think of and bunch of stuff you can’t ... but will suddenly need one day.
That happens sometimes. I don't know why.
Ah yeah good point about region. In this case we'd have to look at just US viewers of Netflix Originals. The entire dataset would be interesting though.
Is this for deleted users or a marked drop in user activity. Because it takes concerted effort to actually delete a profile and have it remain deleted, it would be a much stronger signal of the platform's decline.

Six years ago when my classmates and I applied to college we were changing our profiles to make them not appear on potential searches by admissions offices. This including faking names, pictures, etc. To me that was the moment Facebook became something I didn't want to be a part of, fake etc.
I'm talking about value to society.
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Facebook stopped being about friends and has become groups.
Sharing is not between friends but between interest-groups.

the worst is when your friends share garbage, and you view it, you start to see more garbage suggested to you. you can't "un-see" anything. the algorithm knows.
That's not a rebuttal to what cabalamat was saying.
Possible, his homepage says it's published on July 2001 in Annals of Improbable Research.
Yeah, everything will be hunky-dory until Belle and Josh are struggling to make their mortgage payments, and Facebook comes calling.
“A short 30 second recommendation” sounds like an ad to me.
I'm not sure where you get either of those from my comment. TLAs (not just intelligence) can and will do that digging. Marketing/surveillance firms will do it or pay blockchain analytics firms to do it. Anonymizing protocols will probably thwart all but intelligence agencies, though.
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Separately, Pompeo described WikiLeaks as a “non-state hostile intelligence service”. ... as opposed to a certain state-hostile intelligence service
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If he's offering you such a high salary, that shows he's very keen to have you. And you mentioned he's wanted you for a while. Which might mean you have lots of leverage, even if your friend wouldn't want to admit it.

So even if he would prefer you to focus on his thing, you could just state that working on your product on the side are your conditions for joining his company. And see what he says.

If he says no (and you feel he really means it, and you feel you really do want to work on his project full-time) almost certainly the 400k full-time offer will still be on the table.
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I saw nothing new except scoop.it
Facebook for my peers is now used for official announcements by users.

1. just got married/engaged

2. accepted to MBA/Law/Medical/other grad school

3. job offer from prestigious company such as McKinsey/Bain/ Google/FB/Apple

4. DSLR photos of exotic vacations

either that or passive aggresive political viewpoints.

Snapchat serves a completely different purpose and has the daily "realness" going for it
Lock-in amplifiers are indeed great. They essentially shift your signal up in frequency, where you have less background.
Here, it might be hard to apply because you would need to modulate the heating. Not impossible, but the maximum frequency is certainly limited.

Part of being a physicist is having a high pain tolerance to non-working hardware. This includes cables.
A commenter here told me that it's now possible to delete Facebook while keeping messenger, so that's what I did. Don't miss it at all.

Agree with other posters that it's annoying how anything you like or comment on is broadcasted to your entire feed. Makes you not want to comment or like amything.
Training on FPGAs starts to make a lot of sense when you consider low bit precision computation (e.g. DoReFa-Net).
Nope, I was referring to this: https://sourceforge.net/projects/kp-googlesync/
I thought the same about MySpace and Digg after they were both eclipsed by Facebook and Reddit respectively - but to my surprise the owners both shut them down and relaunched reinvented versions many years later.
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