skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Its not so much that we can't find new fish, it is that only a small portion of species is considered commercial profitable and those get fished to extinction. It is the least functional way to handle a ecosystem, and that is getting subsidized.

Its like when nation subsidies farmers that is growing singular crops that kills the soil, decreasing prices while keeping output artificial high while each year get worse and worse. Its not that farming is inherently unprofitable or that farmers can't find fresh soil, but rather a system failure. The eco industry, while often subsidized, has gotten quote profitable but the equivalent thing for fishing seems to still be rather small. I have seen some minor political efforts in trying to give subsidies money to fishermen that target overpopulated or invasive species, but nothing big.
Thanks! It's weird, but as soon as I tried upgrading to an identical GCP machine running Debian 9 (stretch) and run my database creation process[1], it took many, many times longer to even download the several GB dumps from Wikipedia via wget than it did on Debian 8 (jessie). As the beefy machine I use for the database creation process costs ~40 cents per hour, I figured it wasn't worth it to upgrade to Debian 9 since the Debian 8 machine finished in one hour and worked fine. After trying it a second time a month later and realizing the same thing happened, I added a note for myself in the README about it. I did find some other reports about it online[2] and just decided it wasn't that critical to upgrade it at the moment.

[1] https://github.com/jwngr/sdow#database-creation-process
[2] https://lists.debian.org/debian-kernel/2017/12/msg00265.html
I dunno, maybe the CEO was open about using the medication for productivity reasons and both folk had a laid back attitude to the subject?

Point is I'm trying not too read too much into their dynamics and make assumptions based on a short HN comment.
Disclaimer: I work at Google, not on cloud.

I think this is just coincidence though. Apple most likely performs their own layer of encryption on top of what Google already does.

They protect against two different attack scenarios: Google doesn't want plaintext data to show up on disks. Apple doesn't want plaintext data to be accessible by anyone at Google (or any other 3rd party provider).
It's wonderful, isn't it? Can you imagine how useful this is to programmers that didn't have the opportunity to go to university or to programmers that are still in high school?
It's irrational to believe or be frightened by such alarmist claims. Current arctic sea ice extent: about 14 million km2, more than double what it was last summer, as usual, and still similar to recent years. [1]

On the other hand, since we are lucky to live in an interglacial, we should be more concerned about the return of ice age phenomena such as 1-2 km thick ice sheets that covered e.g. Scandinavia, Switzerland, and Seattle up to 10,000 years ago. [2] [3]

[1] http://ocean.dmi.dk/arctic/icecover.uk.php

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_glacial_period#Weichselia...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cordilleran_Ice_Sheet
Sure, in a modern plastics factory there will be a couple of machine experts on shift who roam around the shop floor troubleshooting and fixing things. But for every one of them, there are dozens if not hundreds of workers just standing there feeding and unloading the machine, pressing buttons, cutting flash off of parts, and loading pallets.

There are a ton of jobs in a factory that require little to no skill or intelligence, even today. I'm not sure why everyone is trying to make it seem like everything is high skilled labor, because it's not, even in a heavy factory. Trust me - the guy in the forge doesn't need to be even as remotely smart as a programmer.
TLDR: AI replaces lowest-cost portion of legal practice, AKA "document review."

For those of you familiar with the legal field, document review involves reading and summarizing documents. This task is left to new graduates because they don't have the skills or experience to actually do anything useful.

Looking at LawGeex website, it appears that all the AI does is heuristically match common terms, phrases, and cases to guess what legal issues are raised in the document reviewed. It certainly makes the process of document review more efficient, but it's not revolutionary.
Have to admit, the reporting is not as good as I had hoped. No links to studies, very short, and for such a important topic...

Anyone knows of any citation?
Data is broken in to chunks, then encrypted, then stored. Given that the AWS keys vary by user, and it’s not done file-by-file, any de-duping would be entirely coincidence and not leak anything.
Who are you thinking of in Sydney?

1. Atlassian
2. Canva?
3. ??

I can’t think of anything else big and “impressive”. Who am I forgetting?
Your second and third points are why I love having state machines in the games I develop.
Oh my, it misses the point completely.

The problem is the automatic call of methods of arbitrary classes, controlled by the external YAML, such as DESTROY.
unblessing after loading does not help at all. You need to disallow blessing during load, or provide a whitelist, such as python does.

cperl's YAML library does contain the security fixes for some years already:
https://github.com/perl11/cperl/blob/master/cpan/YAML-LibYAM...,
the cpan version maintained by this person is still vulnerable, besides being incompatible to itself, and unusable for cpan.

https://github.com/rurban/yaml-libyaml-pm/tree/safe contains the whitelist variant, as in python.
> They're responding to people who buy fish, which is most people

I wonder what percentage of the catch ends up for human consumption. I got a (possibly completely unfounded) feeling that it is not very big figure.
"A message/photo/video lasts for a short time and then goes away"

Not to mention this was never the case. The messages disappear from visibility on your phone, but those messages are preserved forever for the NSA, the FBI, the local police and most importantly, internal analytics for SnapChat.
I've also found the presence of a mode variable a good indicator that a FSM should at least be considered.
Firebase Hosting is a simple way to host frontend code, similar to (but a little easier than) using S3 to serve the frontend. Since the database is SQLite, it seems like the backend and DB are hosted on GCE.
I enjoy machine learning and I'm interested in learning Javascript, so this seems really interesting. That said, what would be a good way to build some Javascript experience that would be useful for something like this?
You should track the "longest shortest paths" of things and display them - has anyone managed to hit 10 degrees of separation, for example? If someone finds one, let us know!
Older hardware? The first SE was released less than 2 years ago and there was an update last year that added more storage.

It’s still a very speedy phone.
Updating columns with randomly selected values in SQL
That's hilarious. We should make this a contest, the 2 length paths with the most unlikely layover
Line Simplification (2012)
Facebook had a booth at CPAC featuring a VR shooting game
I've just started out with Arduino. What's the advantage of programming the AVR directly? I guess there's a bit more overhead you can remove? What are the cheaper options? That programmer you linked to seems like a fairly expensive option for someone just looking to get started — can you still use the Arduino board as an interface to program the chip?

Edit - Bonus question: when you use something like that programmer doesn't the code/write/move-chip-into-circuit cycle become really laborious?
Unfortunately, it seems that B vitamins do not 'synergize' with caffeine in an appreciable way, per an article from the LA times in 2008. Caffeine does have a 'negative' effect on circulating B vitamin percentage, but I could only find one study from 2008 about it, and it's not unhealthy. As is, the B vitamins with coffee really only seem to help in the elderly.

That said, yeah, mate is pretty mild in terms of caffeine content.

http://www.latimes.com/health/la-he-skeptic14-2008jul14-stor...
Funny how the author pushes the language to extremes:

- title: a "brief" introduction (it's 206 pages!)

- chapter 1: a "gentle" introduction through Linear Regression, where gentle means that the relationships and equations are provided in all their notational beauty, but without the motivation or meaning part.
What are the 'play music' cities in the world? There was some commentary about Atlanta in the discussion.
Think it's worth submitting on its own?
It shows 8 3-click paths for me. https://imgur.com/a/uo9oi
Why Is It Taking 20 Minutes to Mine This Bitcoin Block?
Prior discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14609525

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16152050
Well...

1) We've banned a lot of dangerous drugs that have been around for centuries. Opium has been used since at least 1500 BCE, so over three THOUSAND years.

2) I think coffee tastes awful and can't even stand the smell. So maybe I'm biased. :)
NSFW isn't enough, if you possess a security clearance it's not safe to view at home either as 1) you can't access classified information if you don't have a need-to-know and 2) you aren't authorized to access classified information from an unclassified computer.
"Assume a hashrate and difficulty corresponding to 1 block per 10 minutes. If I uniformly randomly pick a point in time, what is the expected time between the previous block and the next block?"

https://twitter.com/pwuille/status/967878361782652928
My prediction is these devises will start becoming worthwhile when Alexa et al reach actual human intelligence. Voice interfaces does nothing for anyone unless you are handicapped in some way.
> If you want the current meaning, the OED is a poor choice.

That's simply not true. The OED has the current meanings, in more depth than anyone else.

> That question is relevant to almost no one.

Also not true. Most books and other texts were written before 2018.
How to Flash Your Android Phone
Με δύο αναμετρήσεις ξεκινά η αγωνιστική στην Λα Λιγκα
No, not an idiot. I didn't use the best terms. I updated them to say "Web (frontend) hosting" which are my static files (the HTML, JS, CSS) which is deployed to Firebase Hosting and "Server (backend) hosting" which is my backend Python Flask web server which is deployed to Google Compute Engine (GCE).

So, the website files are hosted on Firebase while the backend is hosted on GCE. The database is actually not hosted; it's just a SQLite file stored on my GCE instance.
Not only that, but it's marked as GPL but the author says in the FAQ that they want to avoid sharing source or "inheriting" the license. Yet it apparently uses GPL code.
None of these exchanges regulate against price manipulation.

Based on Goldman's well documented history of price manipulation tactics (in regulated markets), allowing them to own an unregulated exchange is just about the worst thing to happen to cryptocurrencies in a long, long time.
I'm a Pagedraw customer, and I'm really excited to see their HN launch! Congratulations, team! :)
I assumed the other way around. Firebase gives you the webpage, but when you send a query, it is sent to Compute Engine to calculate all the paths and sent back to the frontend to render.
I'm a first worlder and I've been seeing the difference for over a decade now. I'm close to convinced that first world is the worst place to be as the chances of survival are the worst due to the country being almost entirely dependent on importations for its needs and has outsourced most and lost its ability to sustain itself while lacking reserves.

I think first worlders will be among those hit the harder because they will lose almost everything they're used to and left with the inability to live as the grand parents did for they have forgotten this knowledge.
I find it odd that PG never uses the term "status" in this post - that's what he's talking about, what gets you social status in each place.

However I love this post, and wrote up my own little analysis of a few cities I'm familiar with: http://colinschimmelfing.com/blog/the-different-social-yards...
The link you posted has nothing to do with how GCC does codegen. It is about GCC transitioning itself from being written in C to being written in C++.
For ARM devs, Eclipse+GCC is taking over. IAR's IDE is horrendously primitive and crash happy.
For some reason, I can't edit my post, so I'll just self-reply: In the Nordics, none of my peers use drugs.
Maybe it's not for everyone. We were given an Echo Dot for Christmas. By itself, it's at best a toy, I agree. I didn't use it after the first couple days.

A couple weeks ago my perception changed when I got a Fire TV Stick, and paired it with Alexa. It feels really futuristic to be able to say "Alexa, play Psych" and see the TV change and start where we left off. I can control Netflix and Amazon streaming with only my voice. Now I'm looking for ways to be able to turn on/off the TV, and volume with Alexa.

I think integrating with real world items is where Alexa shines. And as far as your comment on syntax, I've found it very intuitive, and it's only getting better every day.
That's what I'm thinking (as I stare at a computer screen for 8 hours...)
Generics are well understood ATM. Once they decide on something, I don't think the work required would be monumental, unless they try something crazy.
Perhaps what you mean is that you personally don't find it useful. Many, many people do.
http://psycnet.apa.org/record/2017-56107-001?doi=1
I couldn't find a more recent source (this is from 2013), but it claims that 12% of SF (San Francisco-San Mateo-Redwood City, CA) jobs are in "high tech" and 29% of San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA jobs. My guess is the difference between the two sources is that yours is looking at the whole population, which would include children and retired folks.

Close to a third of jobs in one region being in tech is an insanely high number, and it's no wonder that people would feel that the Bay Area is lacking diversity.

https://web.archive.org/web/20130308072135/http://www.bayare...
Good suggestion! I intended to have that exact button, but couldn't find a way to put it in the UI without making things more confusing. I expect I'll add it in the future. Thanks for the suggestion!
Ambitions don't have to be about material wants. I'd say the best, longest lasting ones, aren't even. And there is meaningful work to be found related to anti-materialism. I can think of writing/setting up software to let old hardware shine again, work on software to protect privacy, decentralize the internet, ... these are just on the top of me head. It just doesn't pay so well, and even if you are willing to accept the financial downgrade, these jobs are not so common and might require more work and dedication to land a position. Much like it is for most people outside of tech :)

You don't even have to make a job out of it. You seem to have strong beliefs. Do something with those beliefs and find something you feel is easy and worth it to put your energy into. Not easy, but can be fulfilling.
So does anyone have any insight on the screaming thing? That seems kind of brushed over for something so nightmarish and surreal.
I wonder if there's an opportunity here to build a tool that checks your site every day for copyright violations and can alert you in advance.
A.k.a. Mental illness.
> there are a few who smoke weed / take xanax at work to calm down, but these are frowned upon somewhat.

I find that attitude hilarious. Rampant stimulant abuse is the norm and is accepted, but combining with another drug to calm down is a no-no? Amazing.
Yeah, that was a pretty creepy story with no resolution. My baby monitor is the only device that wails at me at night :)
so, you can browse my comment history [0] for more detail, but here's the gist:

- heroin addict for ~20 years, smoking and iv injecting, plus crack cocaine

- senior software engineer at startup, contributing to open source and speaking at conferences and meetups

- now trying to quit, using methadone replacement provided by uk national health service

my work situation helped by very supportive boss who knows about my problem, and encouraged me to take steps to fix it when he saw my work was suffering (time management for things other than 'obtaining heroin' often suffers as a heroin addict) but not told anyone else.

there was a bad situation at a previous job where i had good health insurance that enabled me to enter a private rapid detox program (then naltrexone implants to stop opiates having any effect for the next six months, plus CBT/counselling) but then my immediate manager got me fired essentially for completely arbitrary and made up reasons, but i was unable to do anything about that due to not wanting anyone else to know i was an addict.

various interesting things happened to me while travelling to conferences or remote customer offices, often in other countries. it's actually fairly easy to buy heroin on the street anywhere in the world, it turns out, even without speaking the language.

if you'd like more information, feel free to ask me anything and i'll try and reply if i can.

0. https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=tmp-20150107
How could look a STM with syntax sugar? Exist a language where is integrated?
http://psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?doi=10.1037%2Fapl0000289
I don't see which field Harris is supposed to be an expert in. He's a 'best-selling' author, though his books haven't great received industry awards. He's a pop-philosopher maybe, but certainly not an expert. Actual philosophers like Dennett, P. Churchland, and H. Putnam has directly and strongly criticised Harris's philosophy.

He has a PhD in Neuroscience, but he's become so disconnected from the field I'd say it's ridiculous to think he's an expert in it. Even if this expertise is granted, Harris spends so little time in his life talking about Neuro it's of little relevance.
Science fiction no more, can lab-grown meat feed and save the world?
Why not use a graph database like Neo4j instead of SQLite? This seems like the perfect use case.

Is it because of the resources required to run one versus SQLite?
Which is totally OK and awesome. Simple ideas can be revisited and applied to solve complex problems.
I like your list, very funny!

I recently moved to Washington (eastern side) and out here it is more about what you can do yourself...do you own a excavator? did you build your own house? do you homestead? how much of your food do you produce yourself? can you rebuild your truck/tractor? etc.
I was speaking recently to a veteran SV hardware engineer, with a masters in EE from Berkeley, who has worked at leading SV companies. They had never heard of a memristor, neither the device nor the term. Do I live in a bubble, or are you as surprised as I am?
https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=Chaka%20Khan&t...

1 degree between Chaka khan and Ghengis Khan!
I never actually touch any of the source HTML. I think that would simply take way too long and would probably result in some very high bandwidth charges. I use three tables from a public dump of Wikipedia's database, which unfortunately don't differentiate between where the links occur on the page. Check out the first section of my README[1] for more information.

[1] https://github.com/jwngr/sdow#data-source
I imagine by the time voice assistants reach human intelligence we will be able to ask Alexa to clean the floors and put the food away :)
Interesting. I just got sucked into checking a whole bunch of connections. I like it.
I would love to see a study too.
When I was first playing with this, I actually really expected you to be using an expensive performant solution like neo4j. When I read that you were using sqlite, I didn't believe it at first and thought it was a mistype from dev until I looked over the source.

That's an impressive and well thought out performance enhancement, and that the app runs so blazingly fast on sqlite is very impressive.
This was already discussed on Hacker News, but there needs to be an accounting for the fact that women's participation in the tech industry peaked in the 1980s and has declined since:

http://www.smashcompany.com/business/why-are-women-being-pus...
Fail Forward – Inspiring Will Smith Mashup
I'm not sure what doomsday scenarios and failed predictions you're referring to but even though for some reason it feels otherwise to you evidence and argument is quite solid.

Seems you may be victim of a bias of some kind here[1], or have been exposed to some misinformation of some kind.

[1]: https://youarenotsosmart.com/2017/01/30/yanss-094-how-motiva...
Tensor Field Networks
If you walk a lot, good sneakers make a huge difference. My knees are... well, but ideal, but much better, since I got better sneakers that cost more money.
Companies like to tout the largest possible acquisition price, so usually $17mm would be the total acquisition cost. Which is a down round severe enough that the last round's investor liquidation preference would mop up all of the money.

Just a guess, I don't know the details of this deal.
> That's simply not true. The OED has the current meanings, in more depth than anyone else.

The printed OED does not, though there have been separate print supplements to the print edition that get it closer.

The online edition, OTOH, does.
off-topic but why do you use 'let' instead of 'const'? In royal.ts you do that all the time even though you variables don't change! Is there a reason for that?
>I solved most of my back problems by switching to entirely flat shoes. No arch support at all. No heel drop. No sculpted foot bed. Thin soles. They are basically leather moccasins with a 3mm vibram sole.

sounds like mine, these are what I use: https://www.softstarshoes.com/

what do you use, if not those?
If the intermediate representation is no more language-specific than x86, then it isn't really the compiler that's language-specific: it's modern computer architecture.
Judging by package management, I wouldn't be surprised if it took another five years to figure out a plan and they did something controversially different from everyone else.

Which isn't a bad thing, necessarily.
Someone taking my physical cash means they have to actually come to me, or come to my home which has security cameras.
I think leave one out is actually a special case of k-fold cross validation where k is equal to the number of datapoints. But yeah, you can use bootstrapping, cross validation, the jackknife. There's a large toolset there, and I trust an analyst who explains what motivated them to choose a certain tool rather than one who just uses a tool because it's what they always use or it's expected of them.
The Transition from Classical to Post-Quantum Cryptography
How to identify and optimize over-provisioned AWS ElasticSearch Instances
As a westerner I got pretty used to doing this while I lived in Korea. It's really pretty comfortable once you build up the muscles.

I really wish that it was doable in skiboots :/
I'm not sure what allows you to speak in the name of the public but the disasters science warns us about is currently happening.

https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/article/67/12/1026/46052...
Thanks for the link. I meant to track that down and I appreciate your doing that for me.
If it could go either way, why are we so sure it is an unstable loop in one particular direction?

Our world used to be much warmer than it is now, yet somehow it cooled down a whole lot. There are just not enough lines connecting all the dots here.