skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some people may not read the link because it appears grayed out in some browsers (the link has been posted before and so it appears in the browser history as visited). Maybe it's better to link to the changelog page, since this was reposted because a new version has been released [1].

[1] https://github.com/tidwall/tile38/releases/tag/1.11.0
1. How would you go about creating an AI?

2. How would you identify that what you've created is an AI?

3. Under what circumstances would you decide to trust the AI that you've created?

4. Under what circumstances would you be confident to feed a potentially malicious potential AI to your trusted AI?
From a cursory reading, it doesn't sound anything like that at all.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RF_resonant_cavity_thruster
Looking at Wikipedia I see that IE 6 came out in 2001, so I must be misremembering some context. But I know I left that job not long after 9/11, and I know that whatever version of IE we had to target was unusable for serious DHTML work.
I agree. Even extremely safe languages like Ada, which have found most of their use in safety-critical situations like in plane avionics and medical equipment, allow the programmer to do "unchecked conversions," the equivalent of a static_cast.

It would actually be insane for const to forbid the programmer from doing any of these things. A certain amount of a language and its features is to protect your program from other programmers, to communicate your idea and vision about the code. In that way, const is amazingly useful.
So question:

Any thoughts on replacing HDFS + Yarn + Hive + HBASE
with
GulsterFS + Kubernetes + Cassandra

??
Don't think so. Sounds like it accelerates air particles using electricity.
No. This is a ion thruster, a class of thrusters which already exist and are used in various satellites. They carry a propellant (xenon), then use electricity to accelerate and shoot the propellant out the back. This provides extremely efficient, but low amount of thrust (like a nudge).

This development gets rid of the need to carry propellant. They satellite will scoop it up from the atmosphere, saving weight and prolonging life.
The plug was pulled on Presto and on Mariner (except for NSPR, SpiderMonkey and NSS parts).

The plug was not pulled on the IE and Firefox code bases. In both cases, the plug was pulled on legacy extensions permitting major changes, but neither Edge nor Quantum are new code bases.

(WebKit deprecated on Mac and obsoleted on Linux its first embedding API and replaced it with thr WebKit2 API.)
Soil is not sterile.

The microbes at work synthesizing nutrients from those chemical fertilzers and raw minerals, making them bio-available and aiding uptake are vital.

http://www.pnas.org/content/114/44/11574
You mean such as in the case of e.g. police brutality or mishandled prosecution? The government is indeed on the hook. It is OpenTable's responsibility to ensure that it hires ethical people and that it encourages them to behave ethically and verifies they are doing so. Anything else would be insanity.
guelo's point is that Uber's actions were institutional, and the organization didn't even make appearances to do anything about it
I may have not express myself with the right words. Lifetime are everywhere and most of the time you eilide them. But using it in an expressive way is complexe and difficult to handle (at least for me). If I remember correctly, even the rust team advise to use them carefully as it complexify alot the code.
You and others missed parent's dry humor.

FTA:
> it's not just a rogue employee or two
I did not mean you can make cross-platform programming thanks to this example but that you may avoid having objective C code in your project thanks to this. I know from personal experience that objective C makes some colleague "nervous" :-)
OT only deserves props if they paid compensation for the damage they did. The employee represents the company.
> Hebephilia is absolutely closely related to pedophilia,

IIRC, that’s true in two senses:

(1) Most of the normal age range for hebephilia (11-14) is within the age range used to define pedophilia for diagnostic purposes (under 13) and much of it is below the median age of puberty in either sex, so much hebephilia is pedophilia in either of itd strict senses (the “prepubescent” one or it's age-based operationalization in the DSM), and

(2) the middle category in the three-way classification into pedophilia, hebephilia, and ephebophilia doesn't have a lot of evidentiary support for being a real distinct category separate from the ones on either side.

> and should not be tolerated any less.

I'm not making an argument about the degree to which adult male approaches to minors of different ages should be tolerated (whether or not they are backed by the kind of primary or exclusive attraction that would make any kind of paraphilia.) OTOH, I think there is plenty of evidence in law,nculture, and research that (1) the attractions are fundamentally different, and (2) the degree of social outrage directed at them is substantially different; for both reasons, calling a question about something that concerns conduct that is explicitly not indicative of pedophilia as being on about condoning pedophilia is an inappropriate use of emotionally loaded language that obscures rather than illuminates the issue.
Never heard of MoviePass before (or are they connected to these strange Arnold Schwarzenegger meercats commercials)?

It seems cinemas are doing this already by themselves, for example Cineworld with its Cineworld Unlimited program for about £200 a year.
They are, but even the larger players get into peering disputes with eyeball networks. Level3 and Comcast had a huge peering spat a few years ago (via Netflix). Everyone's ports run hot with China Telecom and China Unicom.

It's almost always political (revenue) problems and rarely technical.

That said, I wouldn't pick up Cogent with their negative attitudes towards IPv6.
reddit is leaking
I'd love to see something that makes use of realtime geofence hooks http://tile38.com/commands/sethook/
Its also rival restaurants, not just rival apps attempting to undermine their competition. Happens all the time on Amazon too apparently in the form of fake ratings right before a holiday.
Having a blacklist is probably still preferable to storing every session though in that there should be less data stored, if only marginally
That doesn't make any sense. If your product costs 100 to make in country a and you sell it for 100 in country b, you're not having any profits.

But if you want to ignore that and charge non-existing profits in your imaginary country, go ahead, you're dooming your imaginary country to failure for not understanding basic economics.
> Atom already has twice the number of packages as Sublime Text while being half the age.

Somehow I think it has more to do with developers not wanting to pay for software than anything else.

XAML coupled with Blend studio is a powerful UI design tool, or stuff like Adobe XD. HTML/CSS not really.
It would make for a fine bit of investigative reporting. Wish I had an article to recommend.

My source is a medium prominent tech executive who tried to disrupt the Valentine's Day flower business (with its high mark-ups). His plan was to set up his own, lower-priced regional alternative -- which would bring in planeloads of flowers from Central America, right on time.

Things did not work out the way he had hoped. Everything went sideways the first year. He tried again, and the second year was catastrophically worse. There was no third year.
"be able to use the app to get tickets and the theaters." is this simply a typo that should be "and TO the theatres"? That would make sense if it actually gave you directions to get there at least...
Eh, I was never impressed with Level3. Their network was huge, and they generally had zero clue what was happening on it. Big networks aren't always better. Level3 got to be huge by running up massive amounts of debt and pricing services uncompetitively. People buying Level3 transit were those in the "you never get fired for buying IBM" mindset.
Go ahead and close your country for foreign companies then, that has worked out well in exactly 0 times in history.

Your "parasite" analogy doesn't make any sense. Trade relationships add value to both sides, but if you wish your people to have a worst product for a higher price, go ahead and ban competition.
Dressmaking Led Elizabeth Keckley from Slavery to the White House
I think you're reading this too narrowly. The cat will respond to changes in its environment, even when sleeping. Try raising or lowering the temperature by an extreme amount while the cat is sleeping -- at some point it will awaken and seek a more comfortable place. To what extent does one need to change a virus's environment before it changes behavior? If its behavior is "fixed" by its genes and well understood, then there isn't much "dynamic" (complex) behavior being exhibited.
There are less accurate ways to explain it.
According to the article, this isn't the first time they've done this:

>The Pearsons are no strangers to lawsuits regarding their philanthropic contributions. In 2011, Thomas Pearson sued Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary, his father’s alma mater, alleging that a $1.2 million gift made in their name to the Methodist seminary had been misused. The United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois ultimately ruled that the Seminary had respected the terms of the contract and dismissed all of the Pearsons’ claims.

My hunch is that they grossly overestimated what a political science department could do to "reduce conflict around the globe".
> Even if electron uses say 500% more resources than vim, why in the world would that matter beyond personal irritation for anyone making 6 figs doing software development?

It would cost me several thousand dollars for a laptop with enough storage to make me happy, or I could get one with a hard disk from dell for under a thousand, or stick with an older machine for nothing. The difference goes into my home loan for me, for others it goes into a number of other things, from hobbies to investments. Just because you are making good money doesn't mean you should waste it on top of the line everything.

It also puts you much more in touch with your users. MS used to enforce the concept of dogfooding but it seems they only do this on top of the line surface pros these days. At least that's the only reason I can think of that allowed windows 10 to get out the door in such a broken state. If they'd had my cheap dell they surely would have noticed the multiple seconds that it can take for the start menu to load with a spinning disk in the mix.

> If the tool is good and doesn't touch your limits why does it matter if it's as slim as a demoscene release or as hungry as a browser tab?

Yes, the bloated one will slow down the rest of my system, we might have multiple GB available but they are still competing over other extremely finite resources like processor cache, disk buffers, etc.
Indeed! And they are made up of humans in the same way that biological bodies are made up of living cells.
That's a shame. They should have picked up someone for this around employee number 8-10.
Interesting - was just reading this morning about Astranis & their low-orbit satellites to supply more of the world with broadband

Seems like a tie-in, although Electric Thrusters themselves look bigger than the satellites right now.

That's everything I know about both subjects, so no idea if this is a useful comment or not :-)
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That doesn't account for spending past income, as in a savings account, cost-basis of investments, or home ownership.
> WinAmp came out in 1997, 2.x was released in 1998. Real time streaming media.

Related to GP's "Software was a lot less capable back then." - somehow, WinAmp 2.x seems to be peak capability of music players; I don't recall any player made later that would be comparable in features for playing local music (with maybe the exception of Foobar2000).

My rose-tinted glasses have some scratches on them, but I still maintain that software of today didn't gain many meaningful features over the late 90s / early 2000s, and yet it grown tremendously in size and resource use.
How women helped build the internet, and why it matters
In 2007, Google gifted their employees one of the latest in LED light bulbs, "just because". I remember LED bulbs being very rare at the time, and we ended up with two of them somehow.

1 failed within 6 months, the other is still used daily as a bedside lamp 11 years later.
This is one aspect not addressed in the article; just because tables were falsely reserved, doesn't mean they were actually responsible for the lack of business - if no customers were going to show up anyway. No real way to ever gauge that though.
I also have Comcast Business, but I'd give them a 40/100. (But most of that score is because the service usually works.)

> I've never had a tech try to run me through a "script", or argue that I didn't know what I was talking about when I tell them I've already done all the debugging and the problem was on their end.

I've had two major outages:

* One outage where IPv6 connectivity was completely lost, and IPv4 connectivity was completely unaffected. I noticed this immediately, because I don't use Comcast's DNS servers; instead I use Google's, over IPv6 exclusively, so it was immediately apparent.

* One outage where IPv4 SYN packets would go unanswered, however, once answered, the connection was quite stable. IPv6 was completely unaffected.

In both instances, the tech on the phone insisted that "my signal strength" was "very weak", and that they'd send a tech out to fix that right away. The representatives both time were unable to comprehend — let alone answer — my question of "how would signal strength only affect one of IPv4/v6? Do you think the copper can somehow discriminate which protocol is in use?" In the end, the representative adjusted by strength until it was supposedly awesome, and in neither case did the problem get resolved at that point, of course.

It took much insisting to get them to look at their own network in the first case, and to replace my modem in the latter case. (I have no idea what went wrong in the latter case, but my guess is "something with NAT" and/or the IPv4 hardware. Regardless, replacing the modem did fix the issue.)

I've also tried — and have yet to convince them of this: every single one of their black Comcast-branded modems will forget the 2 GHz WiFi WPA-PSK key on any sort of power cycle or reset, and revert back to the default, but only for the key. (All other settings, such as port forwardings or the SSID for the AP remain intact.) This, I believe, only happens if you use an actual key; if you use a password from which a key is derived, you won't be affected.

They've also tried to upsell me during outages … which, really? Why do companies do that?

I did at least finally get a representative that was human enough to laugh when I told them that the modem was doing the "blinken light dance". (The LEDs on the front panel go through a sequence as the device boots and acquires a connection.)

> When I called to get PTR records added for my five static IPs,

I would love to have this … I just didn't think I could request such a thing without the hell of trying to explain what a PTR record is.
Benefits to Financial Industry from Blockchain Technology
I made an open table reservation for that day. It required a credit card deposit to prevent no-showing...
Interactive: 100+ Indian AI Researchers, Ranked by H-Index, Citations
I frequently wish I had taken up a career like this instead of going into data science.
What makes it difficult for grandmas as opposed to any other demographic group?
This is arguably not a great reason to use make at all but like another user replied, you’d use it alongside webpack

I originally did think about forgoing webpack but it does it’s job nice enough

https://github.com/shmup/react-makefile/blob/master/Makefile
Is there any trade off after replacing LSM tree-based storage engine to RocksDB storage engine?
A badly written C++ application will still be faster and consume less memory than anything written in JavaScript.

C++ has a defined threading model and libraries since 2011.
That's a cool thought. You could perhaps use the atmosphere of planets to accelerate at very high velocities with the energy stored between each body (which would be a lot .. ie 60 days of 24/7 solar harvesting).

The question is whether the thrust you produce is roughly linear with the energy you expel? Or does it taper asymptotic? What if the power system on the craft is titanium batteries that are designed to deliver 1 MW for say 2 minutes? Will that give you the needed acceleration in a given planets atmosphere? What if you use planetary lasers and don't need batteries at all?
Why, though? What does Chrome do that calls into C++ code compiled by anyone but Google?
GDPR concerns a human right (civil rights in USA-parlance). Are you stating that human rights are a nuisance?
Falling from the Sky Part 4 Leaving the Cloud 5 Years Later
Offroad Transport Truck Police Cars
The rise of 'crypto-colonialism'
It’s an elephant!
Most of the members of Starcity are local employees that work in service professions. We have nurses, teachers, flight attendants, baristas, writers, bartenders and many of these trades require proximity to work so they can't work remote. Unfortunately the cost of an average studio in San Francisco is $3,000 a month and forget about buying a house where the average price is around $1.3M. For median income earners making between $40-90k a year, the options are really bad. Many of them are forced to live with 4 people in a three bedroom, pay 50-60% of their income in rent or commute 2 hours. Those are bad options, so we set out to build something that allows more people to live comfortably.
As of 2007, Arthur Whitney was developing k [0] and kdb [1] in notepad [2].

[0]: http://kparc.com/

[1]: https://kx.com/

[2]: http://archive.vector.org.uk/art10501320
Correct, it's a huge pain to juggle pensions if you job-hop.
Yep: https://www.visualstudio.com/downloads/#build-tools-for-visu...
d-d-dino virus? non-life finds a way.

Fascinating if true.
This is a great thread! I am in a similar position currently -
I am working as a software engineer in a domain that I like, but I am really into product design, strategy in general. This lead me down an exploratory path and I got lucky with an offer from a tiny startup to join them as the first PM. The experience seems to be promising and I think I'll learn a lot.

However, I have some concerns such as the loss of pay (no more RSUs), the nasty commute (1 hour each way minimum as opposed to 20 minutes currently), the work life harmony going for a toss. Anyone out here (who made a switch to the PM space in smaller companies) willing to share their experiences ? Would love to know!
Yes, I understood. The problem is that you can't depend on the astronaut to stay on your side. Either the AI can convince them that the AI can save their life only if they let it out of the box, or it can convince them that, since they will die anyway, they might as well let the AI out of the box.
Of course it does, why wouldn't it. The only thing preventing most companies from doing this to you is their ability manage the data effectively enough to turn a profit. Pure capitalism.
People move around, and that's fine. After two decades of mostly using Linux, I just made a leap of faith into the walled garden of Apple, replacing pretty much every Linux and Windows box with either nothing (the best choice!) or a Mac.

It's just a month in, but I'm quite happy. Everything works and everything is pretty. I can concentrate on important things, and of course on social media shilling.
Java is more "native" than anything with Electron.

Starting by the fact that not only there are commercial native compilers, Java 9 also started the road to have AOT compilation support with the long term plan to replace the C++ parts with Java (aka System Java, Project Metropolis).

Also there are hooks in Swing and JavaFX to interact with the host GUI, or if using something like SWT a pure native wrapper to host GUI controls.
There are a lot of reasons that Yelp is frustrating, but one thing it does semi-well is include recommendations on (and, separately, pictures of) which dishes to try first. Especially at ethnic holes-in-the-wall, it can be a barrier to visiting the restaurants at all.

Happy to chat offline - feel free to reach out at Ben@redskyinsights.com
One of the (many and oft-debated) aspects of life is that via homeostasis it maintains a negative entropy gradient. That is, over time, it will coalesce more "order" within itself than the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics says should normally happen -- more than if it were merely a random bag of chemicals.

I like this definition, because it implies some kind of "trying" -- life must "try" to keep some balance that continues its existence.

(a) Viruses (and certain bacteria) confound this approach because they can indefinitely continue (and even evolve) their existence without actively maintaining or improving any kind of this "balance"; they rely on their host to provide the balance, or at least some critical parts of it (if by definition, they cannot exist outside a host).

(b) Does this make them life? Unclear, maybe.

(c) Could such an organism evolve to no longer depend on a host? Yes, conceivable.

(d) Would this organism that maintains homeostasis on its own be considered life? I would venture to say yes.

So at what point during the evolution from (a) to (d) did this organism become "life"? It seems like it is just semantics at that point. Pick your criterion, call it life.
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/times-watchdog/ed-...

"Ed Murray’s time as Seattle mayor boosted his pension past $100,000 a year for life"
I wish people wouldn't downvote legitimate postgres criticism for the sake of it. Postgres is great, but there's definitely areas that aren't so great, and some update heavy workloads are among those. Especially when long running read only queries are also present.
I've been to the same restaurant on other nights and it's always been packed, so it was quite suspicious that it was so empty on what should be an even busier night...
Successful person overestimates his own abilities and underestimated those of his rivals.
The Shut-ins.

I think the definition is accurate enough: people who recluse inside their rooms or houses for extended periods of time and don't have any real life social relationships.

So not just 'lonely'.

Also to get food at night in Japan doesn't necessarily mean that you have to interact with people: I've heard you can buy pretty much anything from the vending machines.
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>Their bandwidth costs would skyrocket.

I don't think they would. Or at least, the costs would still be tiny.

Like Panic, my company mostly sells desktop apps. We're smaller than Panic, but we still have a considerable quantity of downloads each day. We use AWS S3 + AWS CloudFront to host our app downloads, and the cost is so small as to be irrelevant to my business.
leet programmers use vi

:P