skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Because the alternative would be to have thirteen saurik in the same thread debating a topic and you would have no way of distinguishing them.

In the real world, people almost always go by their first name, and we don't have this problem. When two people in a social circle have the same first name, we don't turn and say "well everyone has to use their whole name, always, now." Rather, we adjust our names (usually someone gets a nickname, or goes by their last name).

The steam system allows multiple people to have the same display name and it works just fine. Sure, people can troll with it when they join your tf2 server (and then you kick them off).

The blizzard system also works great. The unique identifier is there, if all other forms of attempting to add a friend fail, but mostly you end up working contextually.
> To me, it all seems another gold craze, stoked not only by the usual crowd of techno-babblers keen on latching on the latest buzzword, but also by certified wingnuts from the long-discredited hyper-libertarian Austrian school of economics

That's a bit question-begging, there. Austrian economics seems quite reputable to me, anyway.

> the inconvenient fact that if societal trust erodes sufficiently for paper money to lose its value, it’s highly unlikely an arbitrary string of ones and zeros in an arbitrary hard disk somewhere would fare much better

In a world of rubles, rands & lira (all highly volatile, although probably not as much as Bitcoin currently), a world in which governments (not all democratic!) attempt to control the movement of capital, I think that ones & zeros might not be a terrible addition.

Upvoted anyway, because his fundamental point is probably correct: cryptocurrency is in its infancy.
We use slack, communicate for everyday tasks, and have so many silos of knowledge it’s ridiculous.
What specifically disqualifies it from being defined as an empire?
Great marketing to let an obvious fan (check his history) who loves writing get an early look at your product.
That was not true for a really long time though, Beijing was still pretty bad even last year. Mr. 11 can always just go off to his villa somewhere else anyways.
> Why aren't employees more loyal to their employers?

Because employers are not loyal to their employees in the slightest. A minor
financial bump leads to layoffs. A controversial opinion leads to being fired.
A tasteless but otherwise harmless joke leads to being fired. No regular
significant raises unless the employee changes the jobs. Freshly hired
employee getting higher salary for the same position, what makes it look like
the company puts a tax on the employees that stayed there longer instead of
rewarding them. No systematic, predictable, and generally available way to
learn new skills, so the employee is stuck forever on the same position unless
changes the jobs.

Why would anybody offer their loyalty in return for virtually nothing?
One of the primary struggles of modern humanity is the battle against our base instincts. We instinctively seek out sugar, fat, and salt. We instinctively do things that give us dopamine hits. We instinctively want to do things that are fun and easy and avoid things that are dull and hard.

Modern parenting is largely a battle against these things, as modern society makes them so easily accessible. The very concept of allowing kids to choose what they want is so completely flawed, as kids are driven more by instincts as they don’t have other more modern mental structures to rely on.

Learning stuff is hard because it actually changes the brain, and kids need to be pushed because they will avoid it otherwise, as per the instincts mentioned above.
I love music but I don't consider myself an audiophile. After having written off the HomePod yet trying one for a weekend - I cannot wait for the stereo upgrade. It is astonishingly good as a speaker.
I find that Slack creates worse "accidental" documentation than some other forms of communication. Prior to my team's adoption of slack, major decisions/designs were usually documented in an email at some point, because they needed to be broadcast. If you can find that email then you have a fairly good self-contained resource for understanding whatever it was about.

Slack is easy and it's broadcast, so some people use it preferentially whenever they need to broadcast. However, the form that it takes is lines of text barfed out and interleaved with unrelated lines of text. There's no summary metadata (like subject lines), there's no organization except time, people put very little thought into what they type so it's at best rough draft form. It's hard to search, and even worse, your team or organization may be hip but cheap, and just get the free version that disappears your message history making search moot.

In short, we used to get better documentation for free, now we get none. Sometimes, old emails can be immensely useful in trying to figure out why something was done, or recovering old understanding and history.
Exactly. I've been living in this town for six years now. In this time there have been three big bombs found, with substantial evacuations on the same day (a few thousand people).

The last time was some weeks ago, and the local press not only did features about the two experts defusing the bomb, but was welcoming them by their first name, as they were old acquaintances.

Also, when you get official permission to build the permission does not only include restrictions like maximum height etc., but also very clear directives in case munitions are found, including the correct phone number in the regional government.

Before the permission for the building I'm living in was issued they actually interviewed older neighbours, one of which claimed he remembers some bomb droppings on this lot. They cross-checked with aerial imagery from the 1940s and concluded there was low risk and permission could be granted.
Yes. So, you are saying there is a big demand for housing in the city close to jobs? True dat.

Econ 101 tells us the way to meet that demand without increasing prices is to increase supply. That part hasn’t been done. No amount of “housing denial” and rent control will change it.
Encirclement was just the outcome. What was really interesting to me in the battle of Cannae was the feigned retreat.
I spend all my youth in the north of France. I have never heard of the behavior you describe. AFAIK, the rules are rather well applied and children are well informed to avoid accidents.
Repeatable Annotations in Java 8
This is my favorite strace resource:
https://jvns.ca/strace-zine-v3.pdf
Being the most populous, California is the most underrepresented state...
Looks like Creative Cloud leaks handles. Two and a half days uptime, no app updates in Creative Cloud and it had ~16,700 open handles.
Consumer Protection Bureau to Lose Its Fangs Under Trump Admin's New Plan
Where does it say they got it early? It's plausible this was done over the weekend.
Actually, he is.
That, the superior handling of short-message group conversations and the fact that the number of people who could email me is vastly greater than my team members on slack. As such, I tend to check slack relatively frequently, while I check my emails only twice a day - I do not have push notifications enabled for email. Basically, slack means a usually-within-2-hours response time, while email means same-or-next-workday response time.
Of course they knew about it. It is just when one province do it, others have to do it too. There aren't any Top party members who hasn't been a head of region at least once when they were ranking up the ladder. So not only did they knew, they properly have done it themselves.

Now Xi is trying fix what's wrong. ( Only if you are not reading too much into it )
That's part of the point: it has a 7-tweeter 360º array that is used to add directionality to the sound. Obviously won't compare to a true stereo pair, but it's not nothing either.

Personally speaking, I'd take great mono over sub-par stereo any day anyway.
Kim Dotcom Begins New Fight to Avoid Extradition to United States
My three Eagle Scouts are respectively a Sargeant, an Engineer and a Musician. The Engineer went to CMU and works at a startup in Redwood City. The Sargent did his tour of Iraq in transportation (doing vehicle recovery) and returned a little busted up; now has a MechE degree and is a process Engineer. The Musician studied at Cleveland Institute, but turned to the dark side and now works IT.
A few supplemental links that may be of interest to the HN crowd:

A Pace Layering seminar:
http://longnow.org/seminars/02015/jan/27/pace-layers-thinkin...

Doc Searls riffed interestingly (in 2008!) on pace layering (aka "Layers of Time"), the Internet, the Burton Matrix[0], and Open Source:
http://commons.oreilly.com/wiki/index.php/Open_Sources_2.0/B...

[0] Craig Burton's Open/Closed Proprietary/Public Domain matrix isn't often explicitly named, it's insights having been so thoroughly absorbed by our community: http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/understanding-infrastruc...
does anyone thought about cryptocurrency mining?
What's the cryptocurrency mining efficiency vs price ratio like? Is this going to be the new Rx 580 in terms of popularity?
Thanks, that was quite helpful, especially the "oversubscribed" detail. I do not hold a patent or greencard.

I should add however, that I am enrolled as a student and am currently in the final phase of my PhD. I should be eligible for the J-1 Visa, correct?
An internship would be at least something and who knows what develops out of it. Wdyt?
Cancer-fighting nanorobots programmed to seek and destroy tumors
It would be awesome to factor in being able to watch a rocket launch while visiting the area, including finding the date based on scheduled launches, just as a cherry on the cake. This narrows locations down to places like Ventura CA, Pismo Beach CA, Orlando FL area, French Guiana, and where else?
You can be a homeowner and also not be a misanthrope at the same time. The min/max attitude of tech workers has always disgusted me in his regard.

Edit: I don’t retract my statement, but at the time of posting this my parent comment only contained the first paragraph. I agree with most points brought up
The reviewer seemed to be very frank about listing their biases in fairness (see the big section titled 'Bias' in the review). And they shared their original data, so it's up to you what you want to make of it.
https://www.reddit.com/r/audiophile/comments/7t51a2/nda_is_u...
Which is exactly why it should apply uniformly to the whole municipality.

It's the same mentality that uses the "within X' of a school" that elides over the fact that a sufficiently large X will cover everything in the jurisdiction. The PLSS grid system put a school at every other corner, so there was a school every 2 miles, and no child would have to walk more than 1.414 miles to reach one. So if you had defined a zone "within 7500' of a school" that would have been a synonym for "everywhere" that bakes in "think of the children" to your legislation.

"Within X' of a public transit station" instead bakes in "think of the hordes of poor people".
rubbish for crypto but good value for games hopefully
You're implying that Wikileaks did not release everything they have. Is this an assumption or is there evidence of this?
Comp-Engine TimeSeries-comparison engine for time-series data and analysis
Solving the Dark Energy Mystery: A New Assignment for a 45-Year-Old Telescope
When is off the shelf edition coming?
1,2,5 strike me as by far the most impactful. Legal alternatives are much more prevalent and convenient than ever before. By the same token, people used to streaming from YouTube or Netflix look for the same experience in their piracy, and pirate streams offer that. For people who want a collection of files to pore over, a VPN is a cheap and reasonable service most in that demo will be familiar with.

Finally, a lot of piracy around the world took the form of downloading files and burning them onto discs form physical distro, which has also changed for the most part.
Hands on with the Smallest Game Boy Ever Made
No shit. There are party lines you can call that connect up company insiders with traders.

So much money is on the line. There's a huge incentive to buy information.
The idea was indeed to relocate to the US.
Thanks for the additional hints!
Why would they need a secret warrant? In this case, it would have no advantage at all. Also, the US have said on record I believe that they have not placed any extradition warrants on him. I see it more that they can't actually arrest him for anything, as he hasn't broken any laws _in_ the USA. He has done things the don't like for sure, but as a non US citizen how can he be bound to these laws? If this were the case, Russia could extradite Gay rights activists all across the globe for breaking hideous Russian obscenity laws.
Shifting Scientific Consensus on Climate Change
Stripping out things past the + will also break things for users that intentionally are creating more than one signup. This seems like a really bad idea.
I think the gp is referring to something a little more general. Let's pretend for a moment that our minds can be modeled by a formal system. Every thought has a chain of axioms grounding it. So, the scary part is, Godel showed us there are true things that can't be represented by a formal system.

Maybe the useful models exist, but we can't comprehend them, because they're true outside of the set of rules we happened to get built into our minds?

generally though, i'm on board with you. all models are wrong, some models are useful.
Averages matter a lot. You can be magnanimous but it doesn't take that many greedy bastards to have an effect.

I also think closet classism/racism plays into it. California has a liberal facade but there's a lot of "we don't want those kinds of people" in our neighborhood sentiment below the surface. Making sure housing is unaffordable for minorities and the poor is a great passive-aggressive way to implement segregation without having to admit it.
You are looking for IPFS, or possibly Dat.
I wasn’t doing a lot of “ops” type stuff at the time but I get the impression that a few years ago some people were using the term to mean “you build it, you run it”, without necessarily requiring as much tooling and infrastructure as seems to be expected today.

Modern devops == configuration management, CI tools, and expectation that you at least take an interest in containerisation.

(I tend to feel that, at least until you get to quite a large scale, there’s still a fair amount of value in “developers who aren’t scared to poke production servers when needed”, but it doesn’t really seem accepted to use the word “devops” to describe that kind of setup.)
Reading the TOS it seems like this is a really great deal for Google:

"When you upload, submit, store, send or receive content to or through our Services, you give Google (and those we work with) a worldwide license to use, host, store, reproduce, modify, create derivative works (such as those resulting from translations, adaptations or other changes we make so that your content works better with our Services), communicate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute such content. The rights you grant in this license are for the limited purpose of operating, promoting, and improving our Services, and to develop new ones."

All your training data are belong to us.

We can use your models to improve ours.

The terms will prevent me from using it. I can't grant Google permission to redistribute HIPAA PHI.
Integers are not magic. If you want arbitrary precision on top of integers you're going to need arbitrarily long integers as well.
I've recently used SQLite to store some metadata for a FUSE filesystem that pretends all your data is available but that just keeps a local cache and fetches it from the server on demand[1]. Initially performance was atrocious because INSERT is really slow if you don't batch several into transactions. I've worked around it with some application caching but there does seem to be a large gap between what the postgres engine can do and what sqlite can do. I definitely don't want to depend on a postgres setup for this application but it would be nice to have an SQL database for app use that had a bit more write performance. It seems that when you want that you end up going to LevelDB or LMDB and losing the niceness of an SQL interface.

[1] https://github.com/pedrocr/syncer
Beer Finder
1. So, it'd be like alcohol and tobacco, then? At least the product they are selling will have standards of purity and things like that.

2. Education that doesn't involve scare tactics provides things like proper expectations, safety on dosage, and things like that. MOst drug education in the US has scare tactics - like your reference to cocaine. Most healthy folks can do a little bit every once in a while and have few to no side effects. Same for MDMA, but folks should know that taking it too frequently can mess you and that you'll not be sober for a while. Folks get morphine and medical-grade heroin for pain without becoming instant addicts, so obviously it is safe in some situations. We can teach folks what to expect from pot edibles, mushrooms, and LSD. We can teach folks how to keep safe while doing a drug - how long before you should consider yourself no longer impaired, for example. Warning signs to seek medical attention are important to learn. Legalisation means folks aren't as likely to lie about it to cops and doctors.
I wrote down everything I learnt from 13 years of solving tricky bugs (194 entries in the file). A very useful and interesting habit that I'm still following.

I distilled the most important lessons here:

https://henrikwarne.com/2016/06/16/18-lessons-from-13-years-...
There is a popular anecdote along these lines that comes from the 1950's US Air force.

https://www.thestar.com/news/insight/2016/01/16/when-us-air-...

The scientists also expected that a sizable number of pilots would be within the average range on all 10 dimensions. But even Daniels was stunned when he tabulated the actual number.

Zero.

Out of 4,063 pilots, not a single airman fit within the average range on all 10 dimensions.

Using their definition of "average range", which is the middle 30% (in height, waist circumference, etc), we should expect to find one such individual for every 1/0.3^10 = 169,351 people on average.
Top 3 Java Performance Improvements we're looking forward to
Yeah, laptops will have the equivalent lower power chip in the 15-25W range and 2 GHz instead of 3.5. Doesn't change my feelings. :)
It's nearly impossible to validate against TLD since there are arbitrary TLDs now. I've always checked for something@something.something then you rely on a verification email. If you want to make sure they typed in their email correctly, then make them type it in twice.
How does it fair against a firewall or behind a router? Is it just a simple client for convenience or does it provide a server too? Cause being able to pass through a firewall would be worth paying for, otherwise I still have the same problems as using a normal client.
Lego Ideas SpaceX Falcon Heavy (Saturn V Scale and Quality)
In my native Sweden people can send money to each other directly from their own bank accounts via a mobile app instantaneously for free over the Swish network. The limits are up to a temporary maximum amount of approx. 18 535 USD (150 000 SEK) and down to a minimum amount of approx. 12 cents equivalent (1 SEK). More than half the population are using it already [1].

Bank wire transfers within the entire EU is regulated by the SEPA framework which basically means that banks are not allowed to charge more for a intra-EU transfer than a transfer within the same country. This allows me to send money between my EU bank accounts for a fee that is usually between 1-3 EUR and never more than that. The transactions take one bank day to clear in my experience.

Currently, the EU equivalent of Swish is being rolled out. It's called "SEPA Instant credit transfer" [2] and will work pretty much the same as Swish, except with coverage over the entire EU.

The money is insured [3] and faulty transactions can be reversed with due process in many cases. [4]

It's unfortunate you have to have these experiences with your banking system - it does not work like that all over the world, however.

Also: Can someone please enlighten me on what we need "the blockchain" here for?

[1]: https://medium.com/@etiennebr/swish-the-secret-swedish-finte...

[2]: https://www.europeanpaymentscouncil.eu/what-we-do/sepa-insta...

[3]: https://ec.europa.eu/info/business-economy-euro/banking-and-...

[4]: https://www.metro.se/artikel/det-h%C3%A4r-g%C3%A4ller-om-du-...
You had a comment here complaining about 'carpet bombing with [citation needed]' and you deleted it, but I agree with you on this.

Wikipedia posted a great article called "Why Wikipedia cannot claim the earth is not flat." [1] It describes the various ways special interest groups and fringe fanatics will fight to make their views recognized. One of the ways they called "gaming the system" where they frivolously request [citation needed].

The fact that China underwent a terrible famine shortly following the Communist Revolution is pretty common knowledge. Other than that, he wasn't clear what he was requesting citations for.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Why_Wikipedia_cannot...
Show HN: Contact.sh – a tool to find contacts to report security vulnerabilities
The President of the United States also asked the same organisation to hack an opponent. So I take most of what they say, especially these days with a pinch of salt.
The article says (paragraph 4) that Sweden dropped the arrest warrant last year. So I'm afraid that your preferred ending of the story is unlikely.
i dunno if this continues today, but before digital became prevalent there was something of a holy war in the audiophile community between mono and stereo. i know a lot of people still prefer the mono mix of sgt pepper, but that might be because the stereo mix of that particular album is actually inferior.

today practically all new systems marketed to audiophiles are stereo, but my guess is that most would consider faithful reproduction of the signal to be more important than the number of channels if they had to pick.
Maybe when it gets Python support! :)

https://excel.uservoice.com/forums/304921/suggestions/105490...
Google Makes Its Special A.I. Chips Available to Others
Sadly, your experience is not uncommon. I've run across the same thing too many times to count.

We tried for a little while to have an online test (HackerRank) before we interviewed, but we removed it when we got feedback that the really good people (who probably already had a job and/or existing offers) just didn't bother.
Lost academic papers are more interesting to me, probably because I am an engineer and the papers I want have practical utliity to me.

One instance where I got lucky was tracking down a 1946 conference paper by famous turbulence researcher J. O. Hinze. The conference proceedings were unfortunately never published. After a lot of asking around Shell, where Hinze worked at the time, provided me with a copy. The paper was less interesting than tracking it down was, but still important enough to cite in my dissertation.

There's a more well cited paper at the same conference by G. Darrieus that my brother found with similar methods.
Thanks for introducing me to this blog! This is the money quote for me:

There’s a mass influx of newcomers to our field and we’re equipping them with little more than folklore and pre-trained deep nets, then asking them to innovate.
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"We'll get right on that"

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-equifax-cfpb/exclusiv...
I feel like things went the wrong way with "Black Lives Matter". We were just on the crux of a "Police Accountability Matters" movement and then things went a different direction.