skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And those same millions have been halted simultaneously in development around the world by the removal of key packages due to namespacing issues. Or, today, we find that running the newest version of npm under sudo can rewrite file system permissions across the entire hierarchy.

What was that you were implying about how the choice of millions is probably pretty good?
That or any google proguct. They seem to have the forum locked down tight. Look at the posts that rise after a while in any AMP, Gmail, or Talk thread. Its a clear shift when workers come online. I often wonder how many people are employed to influence and steer technical discussion on sites like this.
What about milkshakes and frappucinos? These would be awkward without straws. (And frappucions are a huge seller to the 14 - 20 yr old demographic)
First US numbers are greater than 1.25 deaths per 100 million miles. Self driving cars are well over 10 million miles but not 80 million. Even then 0 < 0.1 even if it's not great evidence it is still evidence.

However US is not the only country, they have easily passed the accident rate in Brazil.
Sequential consistency considered harmful [pdf]
It's not my view, it's my manager's view, as well as simple math.
The IPO for this has never made sense to me.

Games like this are akin to hit songs, they have a limited amount of time at the top of the charts and the competition to be there with the next "big hit" is immense.

By the time this IPO was issued they had pretty much sucked everything out their "15 minutes" with "Angry Birds" and many of the game's users had moved on.

So, this should have made investors ask "where are you going from here?" and I never heard a great answer to that.

"the drop in share price also cost Finnish pension funds dearly. Finnish pension insurance companies Varma, Ilmarinen, Elo and State pension fund hold a large state in the former star of the mobile gaming industry."

That smells a bit to me. I would think that pension funds would be very conservatively managed and I don't see how the Rovio IPO could be considered anything other than "risky". A "small stake"? Yeah, I can see that, but not a huge bet.

If I were the regulating agency covering that sort of thing I'd want to sniff around and into that a bit.
I mean, it can still get all your conversations right? And web security depends on which type of DOM element is active? I would still argue this is widening the security surface area to an unnecessary degree for convenience.
Hmmmm.

This is useful.
Initialization?

>	W = np.random.normal(0, np.sqrt(2/(h.shape[0] + layer_dim[i])), size = (layer_dim[i], h.shape[0]))

A N(0, sqrt(2/width)) would produce negative values.
But the consolidation of energy (capital) and influence that allows corporate organisms to drive the "norm" has not been practiced on the scale of billions of users. "privacy" seems to be somewhat synonymous with, "finding a viable existence in parallel with the existing system." With massive-scale ability to automate who is within a norm or outside of it, avoiding an arbitrarily defined norm becomes un-viable.
"The Elements of Poker" (2007) is a great, well-written book with lots of good advice about improving your mental game that applies outside the realm of poker

https://www.amazon.com/Elements-Poker-Tommy-Angelo/dp/141968...
The Nerd Cave: Losing $100,000 Building a Space for Gamers
I'm surprised the accelerometer doesn't question its input when I appear to be doing 75mph on foot.
i just sent a transaction for 6 cents and it was included in the next block.. that problem is resolved.

so you can see i'm not making shit up https://live.blockcypher.com/btc/tx/8b420f5e6548865535381fdb...

That's a 2sat/byte transaction... come on man! this is amazing for shop owners.

wait until lightning network and its INSTANT.
They really don't. Trying to find a toilet you can use in downtown San Diego even as a regular looking person is a struggle and you will probably end up having to buy something. Businesses won't let you use their facilities if you look dirty or homeless, and there aren't any city owned bathrooms at least that I've seen in the 2 years I've been here so far.
Important to remember that it's often the same people speculating in both fields. Don't forget that next time some absurd scam coin gets a million dollar market cap
What happens if the plaintiff loses but cannot afford to pay the defendant's fees?
edit: In the contrived scenario you referenced, I agree that the internal analysis wouldn't begin and end at simply "put the users first!" :P But since the vast majority of activity at Google isn't in that critical path, I'm not sure how useful the thought experiment is.

>> if someone higher up the chain can ... then it is manager driven

Again, it's not this simple. Things have gradations in the real world.

I've seen the "business case" be ignored because a VP doesn't think they could get their engineering team excited about it because (a) it's uninteresting or uncomplicated to implement and their perf-focused workers will transfer to other, shinier teams or (b) it's counter to the project's culture or philosophy and they will similarly lose people. Google is "management driven" in some scenarios and "engineering driven" in others. It's part of the gallows humor in Google that some mucky muck or PM is unable get their team to do something we think makes business sense.

edit #2: This is what is really meant by "bottom-up" in the case of Google. The specific incentives from their performance review system, the size of and breadth of projects at the company, and the degree of mobility of its engineers combine to give engineers concrete leverage over their management. I've worked at 4 very large companies and Google is an outlier in this regard. A number of success stories at Google can be traced to that structure, and at other times it's criticized as leading to inefficiency or redundancy, lack of focus or long term commitment, etc.

I'm not even sure what we're arguing about. Of course ads dominate the company, it's what drives the most revenue. If you're trying to have an informed view of the place that would allow you to predict or interpret some specific thing they do with some level of certainty, you can't just look at the mean statistic.
In addition to your points I think GM also acted with more integrity in naming the feature. Tesla calling it autopilot is irresponsible and dangerous.
Would also punish users for posting rebuttals to controversial or factually incorrect posts. I feel like that's a net negative.
Yup, mine cuts off hard, with no scroll option.

Of course, I am the typical HN'er who runs with JS disabled. So perhaps that is a factor.
Well, the good news is that fossil fuels will run out soon and then we'll all be too busy dying of looting and starvation while old datacenters are used by local warlords as death mazes for entertainment.
Seems reckless to do autonomous lane changes with only blind spot detection. I can't how ultrasonic sensors could detect lane splitting motorcycles.
Install scipy on Windows and include the Intel linear matrix libraries.
The point of the article is that next time, just drink your rehydration fluid orally and save yourself the money.

Unless you are vomiting, unconscious or potentially going into surgery, using an IV to administer the fluid is unnecessary.
When EVs advertize 100 mile range, that means in the best conditions. Heavy loads would reduce that. Cold weather itself can make your range worse, and additionally any kind of heating or AC will reduce range further.

I recently purchased an EV with a "100 mile range," and it so far hasn't achieved higher than a 70 mile range, given the cold weather, even with 100% charge, no climate control, and no real load. Turn on the heat, and suddenly you lose another 20 miles of range.

And it can take ages to charge, with current technology. I don't think this sounds too practical for deliveries, quite yet. But somehow, there are Lyft and Uber drivers who have these.
50ms sounds fantastic even for fast-paced multiplayer games.
Same thing that happens if a defendant loses and can't afford to pay court-ordered damages.

Note that some court-ordered damages can be discharged with bankruptcy and some cannot; I don't know the full details of categorization there. But in the absence of bankruptcy, the payment has to happen at some point by some means.
Not all upvotes count toward karma, for several reasons, mostly a composition of various anti-abuse measures.
> better public transport

The Seattle Metro area is working on that. Building out just a few mass transit lines here, not nearly enough, is going to take until 2050.

By which time the built lines will already be far over capacity.

> more cycling

I love cycling, but Seattle is built on hills. A lot of them. Very steep ones. Also it rains, rather frequently, up to 150 days of the year.

Electric bikes help solve the hill problem, harder to solve the issue of everyone going around smelling like a wet dog. Tech companies may offer on site showers, but a lot of other companies don't care enough about their employees to bother.

But even with all that aside (I am a huge fan of mass transit), let's take a look at driving between metros. Right now mass transit between metros typically involves going from one city center to another. So in a world of amazing quality mass transit, it is a trip to DT of your home city, a ride to another city, then a trip to your final destination.

Replace that with on call self driving cars. Picked up at home, and get dropped off close to your destination in another city. Within that city, and within your own city, use mass transit.

With the light rail Seattle is building out, my commute from one of the surrounding cities consists of driving to a park and ride transfer station (because even though I live on a main thoroughfare, mass transit isn't coming anywhere near me in my entire lifetime!), then taking mass transit in to the city.

If I avoid rush hour, my travel time to city is 15 to 20 minutes.

An autonomous car picking me up and taking me into the city makes a lot of sense. Indeed, I'd prefer if all the money (and decades of work!) being spent connecting the cities around Seattle was instead spent building incredible high quality mass transit within Seattle, and the surrounding cities.

At that point, serious change to the layout of cities could happen. Transit could get ran everywhere, huge parking lots removed, lots of housing built close to work, and people who want to would be able to live close to work, helping ease congestion.

Self driving cars make that possible.

The technology that is being built in America needs to be built up around the, unfortunate, fact that we have suburbs. You cannot relocate the majority of the country's populous. There are 700k people in Seattle, and 3 million in the surrounding urban area!
> using the same one for pretty much the last 6 months

Those are some high quality bags!
I don't understand how this network will work in practise. I can broadly understand the physical layer. There will be a big increase in bandwidth over other systems. More satellites and higher frequencies means more data in the system overall.

The link layer and the routing layer however are going to be key to how this system will deliver at such a large scale and with low latency. Negotiating links and routing is currently done with huge, power hungry switches in giant data centres. And those only have to deal with relatively static routes, with a satellite constellation, routes and constantly changing.

My best guess is that for the most part, traffic will go via intermediaries rather than from handheld devices. Having fixed base stations that communicate with the satellites means fewer links to maintain and easier negotiation if they maintain a fixed location.

Does anyone have any more technical information beyond what is provided by a paper by Samsung [1] on a similar space network?

[1] https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1508/1508.02383.pdf
From: https://github.com/npm/npm/releases/tag/v5.7.1

"Thankfully, it only affected users running npm@next, which is part of our staggered release system, which we use to prevent issues like this from going out into the wider world before we can catch them. Users on latest would have never seen this!"

If you are updating to the latest pre-release of something within mere hours of it dropping and you are updating production systems (presumably that have some business value) with no previous testing then the consequences of that aren't on the devs they are 100% on you. And you don't deserve to call yourself an IT (or Ops or DevOps or what-have-you) professional, that is amateurish behavior in the extreme.
>The act of buying a security should be easy

That's all the app is. The purpose of the app is not to be your all encompassing trading platform. It's a simple way to buy and sell securities.
IMO the mindset to be in when reviewing code is not one of evaluating whether it's correct, or even if it's written the way you would write it.

Instead, ask yourself "how would I use this code?" How would you call it? How would you build on top of it? How would you maintain it?

If those things aren't clear, that's where to start asking questions and raising concerns.
It also doesn't include revenue from backbone services that the same projections planned to form the bulk of Starlink's business. Consumer revenues (and thus average prices) are lower.
I have two Asus Chromeboxes that now run Linux. I put GalliumOS on one for my kid and stock Debian on the other. I had to flash the firmware for both of them[1]. If you do this make double sure you're flashing the correct firmware for your device!

[1] https://mrchromebox.tech/
Recently did something similar with a Pocket CHIP and an X230. This is a wonderful SPI programming setup: https://imgur.com/5KEo4Y5
SEC charges Bitfunder as an illegal securities exchange [pdf]
Airbnb Unveils Airbnb Plus
I confess, I've resorted to `sudo npm` in a desperate attempt to get something to work at all, when trying to install frontend assets and not being able to make sense of the errors or get a helpful answer out of the frontend team.
In Eugene we banned them in 2013. You can still buy garbage bags and sandwich bags and so on. And there are still plastic bags for produce and meat. But if you buy a Snapple and bag of Doritos at 7/11 your only options are paying five cents for a paper bag or using your hands. This works well since before they would just automatically bag your things in plastic. Now most people just use their hands.
Well someone goes bankrupt. But the lawyers presumably still want to get paid so does their client have to pay the difference?
Congratulations to the OpenBSD team!
How crazy is it that the BSDs were not given notice about the Meltdown/Spectre bugs? Especially considering the strong security focus of several of these variants
ALGOTOPIAN – THE ALGOSTRATEGY NETWORK EXCHANGE
You can get a no fee roboadvisor with Charles Schwab right now
@Kenji : You have a sibling comment that now is [dead]. Do you see it marked as [dead] or it looks to you like a normal comment? How do you know that you are banned?

[EDIT: Someone vouched your comment, so I see it now as a normal comment. I was going to vouch it after the experiment :( .]

Just to be 100% sure that we are using the same definitions: Can you post a screenshot in imgur of your sibling comment, so we can see how it looks to you?

For comparison: I see https://imgur.com/a/1Z3dF

PS: Please don't downvote the GP comment, so we can have a nice conversation. Try to keep it black, or at least dark grey.
You can trust that people in the US Military are taking this very seriously. I know because I, alongside LtGen Shanahan and Eric Schmidt briefed Secretary Mattis personally about these issues and is part of my ongoing work within the IC/DoD.

You're correct though that most line DL engineers don't have these issues at top of mind. I don't know any ML researcher worth their salt that hasn't thought about them, but the tendency is to brush the concerns off until we're closer to more generalized systems.

That is not a wholly unreasonable position for many reasons, especially given the history of hype around AI, but I'd like to see more discussion happening between junior and mid-level engineers about these things - and especially more work being done about human-machine interfaces in the AI context, of which very little design thought put in.
The first plot of "Activation 0" appears to actually be the random input, if it corresponds to hs[0] in the code. The rest of the activation plots seem to all be strictly non-negative. The other plots with negative values are of gradients, not activations.
The entire JS ecosystem is a case study in trying to be too clever on a well-solved problem.
I'm a big fan apart from how they version. Depending on when you install the version will point at a different commit hash. In our case, all of our Haskell builds failed on all but 1 machine (day apart in resolutions). How nixos handles environments meant our large package builds would kill the entire os, or underlying lib linking just failed - never figured out why, but it wasn't worth investing more time.
This is super awesome! We need a cli version of this! (yes I know I can use the aws cli...but a "shell" in my terminal would be great!)

The more I use AWS, GCP and Azure, the more I realize how much "nicer" it is on the AWS eco-system. While AWS in general is more expensive (to the point where in a large org, you'd need someone dedicated to keep track of cloud spending) - the ecosystem provided by Amazon is so far ahead in some cases
> rather than rent-seeking

Examples of the 'rent seeking' that you despise so much?
Sorry, but if people are too dumb to understand that it's a joke and purely for entertainment value, they deserve to lose their money. It's a gag. Just like Lionel Richie in the TD Ameritrade spots that aired during the Super Bowl.

You're not buying stocks because Lionel Richie said you can trade after hours, are you?
I'm also not a lawyer. But, isn't digital ownership more complex than that (if they were to have a better contract)? I don't think you can re-sell your iTunes library or transfer it to a friend.

Though, I'll agree that you should be able to transfer digital goods. Audible supports this for example.
Really? I'm 54, and constantly have to turn away recruiters who pester me. Long haul is looking pretty good, right now anyway. Even if you're a junior dev, outlooks can change and shift...it's all about staying relevant and proving your worth.
So much this.

I don't think you should be given free reign to just accept outrage because that's the way you think things need to be.

You ultimately need to continually make improvements, not change for change sake.
OpenWorm (C. elegans simulation at the cellular level)
>>My question is how does an update that is almost universally hated by the user base get through to production?

I think a lot of us are jealous of your work history right now - the answer to that question is almost always "the person who can fire me/signs my paycheck thought it was a good idea".
I think I didn't mention meat anywhere. I am actually vegan. There are a lot of plant foods that are relatively high in calories, vitamins, minerals, fat and protein which I mentioned: fruits, nuts, legumes, grains, potatoes, berries and so on. Vegetables (e.g. cabbage, lettuce, tomatoes, cucumber etc) only have vitamins and minerals when you consider that as human you don't have the digestive system and time to digest tens of kilograms of food in a day.

Sugar contains a lot of energy so it's not fooling you when it's tasting great.

Can you say which specific animal is alive eating food without much caloric content (and which specific vegetable are they eating)?
You cannot downvote a comment after 24 hours have passed.

This is a nice feature. One reason I stopped using certain subreddits was that people would look up your comment history and downvote all your comments that weren't archived. I think those downvotes would eventually disappear, but it annoyed me enough that I stopped reading the subreddits where it happened.
I've been debating on internet forums since the late mid 90s, and I'm going to be completely honest with you--this takes the cake for the most absurdly petty debate tactic I have ever seen. This isn't sarcasm I am actually pretty shocked by this.

Seriously? You're right because an unseen "professional debater" agrees with you?
I am happy to report that you are completely wrong about this.

The water usage is almost a 10x difference and the power usage of handwashing is 2/3 more:

"A European study comparing hand washing to machine dish washing found that hand washers used as much as 27 gallons of water and 2.5 kilowatt-hours (kWh) of energy to wash 12 place settings, compared with the 4 gallons and 1.5 kWh used by a hyperefficient dishwasher to wash the same number of dishes."

https://www.rodalesorganiclife.com/wellbeing/washing-dishes-...
The NOC Is Always Ready to Fight the Last War
> it is possible to identify the following very weak 4-digit default credentials

And we all know what the password is... "1234"
Tell HN: Sprint no longer assigning IPv4 addresses
After a few days of seemingly bizarre network errors from some, but not all, apps, I realized my phone wasn't getting an ipv4 address. After three calls with poor tech support bodies who didn't know what an ip address is, I tried Sprint's chat support. I was surprised when they promptly told me that all internet data is now ipv6. However, they said they could do a workaround for me.

Moral, ipv6 is coming. Google says it is at 18% worldwide, and 34% in the US. https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html
>You could also use GTK+, wxWidgets, FLTK, but these don’t provide a good look and feel and non-Linux OSes.

Wx is using native widgets on every platform.
It's been almost 2 years since the great left-pad debacle[0]. The last major npm issue[1] was less than 2 months ago. While the underlying npm registry security issues will remain for a while (and other languages don't seem to have these issues with their package managers), there doesn't seem like there's too much I can do other than use yarn. And hope an alternative registry will appear.

Since I 'vote' with my code - this migration page has been helpful today - and I hope it will help others:
https://yarnpkg.com/lang/en/docs/migrating-from-npm/

It took me ~5 mins to migrate all of my code from npm to yarn. But I don't have complex CI tasks either.

I use ncu to check updates every couple of days, sometimes more frequently. To further distance myself from npm, can anyone comment on the pros/cons of github repo paths instead of package names in package.json?

[0] https://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/03/23/npm_left_pad_chaos

[1] https://github.com/npm/registry/issues/255

*edit: formatting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQuiwp3wnH0

"Right, so I can kill a turtle for five pence then?"
Good point, but if you're retrieving a key file for example, you'd just dump the content. Pass's one key per newline isn't a hard rule.
In agree. Enact a laws to provide sufficient puplic restrooms and support for homeless people while also enacting changes to reduce plastic bag usage. My issue is with the implication that reducing plastic bags caused this. Not helping venerable people caused this, the need for plastic bags is a side effect.
Using Juno for Interactive Test-Driven Package Development in Julia
The implicit step one being that sale of guns / assault rifles were banned, as it should be.
YouTube [AI] Promoted Video Fueling Parkland Shooting Conspiracy
I'm speculating, you could try asking GCHQ. With SDRs so compact and cheap these days the chances are high that they are installed in such places as airports and train stations.
It is fairly safe to assume that turning things off should prevent most data leakage, but for the truly paranoid you would have to remove all the sewn RFID tags from your clothes and not carry contactless enabled cards.