skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While you are correct, the context (at best, checklist) were to imply that it is "JUST" virtue signaling with little purpose beyond that; and in many cases, with attendees and organizers that pay as much thought to it as an iTunes Terms of Service agreement.
Interestingly, under GDPR EU citizens need to opt in to each of these, explicitly, and be able to toggle them off on an ad hoc basis. Additionally, PayPal is required to list each of these vendor's vendors (which could increase the number of vendors by 1 or 2 orders of magnitude). If companies actually follow the GDPR controls this is going to turtle all the way down.
Google's Quantum Computing Party Is as Fancy as Physics Gets
I promise I'm not being antagonistic just because I disagree with you (a qualifier that shouldn't even be necessary but eggshells are abundant in this thread right now), it's weird to me to hear this because I grew up in a time in a culture where dude 100% was gender neutral and it was celebrated[1] as such

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqMODweN8lQ
This is a very sad day.
You are correct. But most cases are explicitly mentioned in compiler's documentations. I would say it's less efforts than getting to know about other language internals.
If you were a decision maker in Russia, why use a chemical so rare that anywhere in the world it appears would directly implicate you, and also kills a subject quickly? Revenge at a level like this-- killing a high ranking KGB informant under UK protection -- would be slow and painful. It would be done using methods that weren't branded Made In Russia into the hides of the victims.

This entire story smells of conspiracy.
Regulatory agencies lack the authority. It's the same with the FAA. If you're a pilot and you fly drunk, the FAA will revoke your certification, but forward the case to the DoJ who have a U.S. attorney assigned to prosecute the case in federal court under federal law, not under FAA regulations. (Of course flying drunk tends to solve itself.)
It wouldn't have to be that big. Even if part of one semester was to take a month as a class and try to add some features and fix some bugs to a codebase that the previous decade of classes had worked on, that would be an eye-opener to most students.
Then flag and rate limit all the people who responded, too.

That said, I don't see that asking someone to express decency and respect when commenting is ever off topic, and should never be flagged.
People here gave me talking points based on what you are saying years ago when I expressed skepticism about Theranos. I worked in the diagnostic industry and know that 1. Many tests (that are in the comprehensive panel that is routinely ordered) cannot be done with a finger stick, they need venous blood. 2. This isn't like a social network you can start out of a dorm room, it is a 50+ billion dollar industry that is highly regulated and needs real science.

What if some 20 year old business major drop out said they are going to make chipsets double the speed of the old and lumbering tech companies like Intel? Everyone here would say no way and never think that would be disrupted so easily. So yes it is a case of people with HN mentality thinking that well taking blood via a venous draw and giving me my results a day later is cumbersome and stupid, and rife for disruption. Someone thinking outside the box despite me or that person knowing next to nothing about clinical lab tech can easily make it better than Roche, Quest, Lab Corp, Abbot etc. because they can move quicker, and disregard the old paradigms. With no consideration for the physical impossibility with known scientific knowledge!

So yeah please by all means look at how smug a lot of us were on earlier Theranos postings about the Steve Jobs of med tech. It is a valuable lesson to learn. Not everything is inconvenient for no reason, and not everything can be disrupted without some serious demonstrable tech.
You can believe in yourself without faking anything, and it’s healthy to do so.

Faking it implies you want to give others the impression you’re already a big shot, and it dilutes out the accomplishments of people who actually made it.

The downside should be that if you’re faking it and you don’t make it, your shame should be relentless and brutal, and no one should ever take you seriously again. Also, even if you make it you will feel alone and empty in your success, because everyone will have long thought you already “made it” and you have to continue hiding your true story. There is no one to celebrate with except those who are also in on it.

Where as if you would have just been humble and true to where you currently are, people have headroom to express sympathy and support should you encounter a setback.
Firefox Quantum Adds “No Tracking” to Private Browsing Mode
That's for instagram
just tried it. yes, W.T.H.?
I'm not so sure it's the turing completeness that is harmful, rather the inscrutibility of code. Lisp doesn't have that problem since code is data!
People become increasingly competent as they gain experience, until the deleterious effects of aging outweigh the value of their experience gains. Without aging deteriorating minds and bodies and cutting lives short, individuals will become extremely productive over time, and able to pursue and carry out very long-term projects and drive humanity forward.

This will open up countless spaces for human expansion, where new humans can settle.
> At the very least, a public key in WHOIS should be required to generate certs. Why in the world isn't this being done? And is there some way Let's Encrypt can start checking for this (to not issue invalid certs for domains that do list a public key), so maybe the above insanity can be stemmed?

I would welcome an authenticated channel to domain registrars, and I would welcome making checking it mandatory for CAs. I think the lack of this is an unfortunate gap, although I don't think we've seen the epidemic of misissuance that you've worried about.

In order to make this happen, it would probably require some coordination between ICANN and the CA/Browser Forum. You can become an Interested Party at the CA/Browser Forum yourself in order to propose this kind of mechanism, or you can find an existing Member or Interested Party to bring it up.

I already participate as an Interested Party and I could bring it up eventually but I'm currently working on certificates for Tor onion services, and I'd rather get that finished before taking on something else.

There may have been previous discussions of this idea in some forum, but I don't know for sure where.

By the way, DNSSEC plus DNS CAA can already allow a domain registrant to use cryptographic means to forbid issuance by unauthorized CAs, and checking this is already mandatory for CAs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNS_Certification_Authority_Au...

This can achieve some of what you want on the negative side, but it's presumably not all the way there.
I came to post this same comment, then found that the paper itself cites Solitaire!

The only downside I see for this implementation is that a stack of "weird" tiles would be much more discoverable for any TLA than a deck of cards.
I have experience with a lot of languages and modern Java is ok to be honest. I like Swift the most but the productivity difference is not that big.
Again, most physicians aren’t that competent. There’s an entire set of literature based around getting your doctor to think critically, because most of them have just done the professional equivalent of memorizing a bunch of flash cards. This is cheap and works for 90% of cases, but the result is that doctors don’t actually know (and don’t care to find out) about all the latest research relevant to the particular condition of one of their 1500 patients.
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>> “It’s not Swiss watch precision,”

This is a weird case, like "20/20 vision", where the metaphor expresses the opposite of the reality. Swiss watches are so expensive because they're clunkier and less accurate than quartz crystal watches.
>leaving the vast majority of expense in deprecation and maintenence.

Depending on the car, gas is probably between about 20% and a third of a car's operating costs (which are typically in the 30 cent to 60 cent per mile range). Although there are a few vehicle costs, like excise taxes, that are more or less independent of distance driven, most car expenses will scale with mileage--especially in regions where rust isn't a major issue.
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/06/wh...

The name soccer came from Britain, not the US. It was used to differentiate Association Football (soccer) from Rugby Football (rugby). Ireland, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand all still call the sport soccer. Even in England, it continued to be a popular name for the sport until the 1950s.
cost not price. You be the lowest price and have higher costs for a while, but eventually something has to change.

My assumption is the Cloud market is much smaller than the everything market. If the cloud market becomes mature and profits shrink, their growth stalls.

If they divert too much cloud money to big physical infrastructure then are they able to stay ahead of the feature curve against competitors?

Then again as both a customer and vendor of cloud maybe their ability to determine new use cases and customer needs is more in-tune.
> The problem is they are stealing from people with abilities, smarts, and resources.

To be fair, these sorts of people tend to be wealthy.

I think the real lesson is don't steal in the public eye. Theranos had so much press surrounding their rise, and fall. It was inevitable the SEC would get involved.
You are correct. It was government contracts to haul mail that turned flying airplanes into an industry back in the early days. Passenger service was added later.

Cargo remains more profitable than people even today. That's why you can still ship packages via passenger bus. Or at least you could the past time I did it in the early 2000's via Greyhound Package Express.

I'm not saying it Amazon Airlines should look like United, with a couple of hundred people up top and all the cargo down below. But maybe add 50 or 60 seats in a space in front.

One of the problems with cargo is that it's so ephemeral. A plane on a particular route can be full of packages at Christmas, and then half empty the rest of the year. This is exactly the sort of problem that Amazon seems good at solving.

Maybe make the passenger compartment modular. Add more seat modules when cargo loads are low. Add more cargo pods when demand is high.

If anyone can make it work, it's Amazon.
I agree with every word, but at the same time I think a lot of people here on HN like to use hating on education as a humblebrag for how smart they are.
"and carries a common definition in the English space of being polite and non derogatory."

Not really. It's always been somewhat condescending.

"Had she been male my comment would be exactly the same except it would say 'dude' in place of 'chick'."

Dude, and in fact many euphemisms for men, don't carry the same connotations as the ones for women.
It could also be said that it is introspective. -- are we just adding this so that people will attend, we won't be protested, am I just agreeing to this so that I can attend -- or do we actually believe in it.

To emphasize the rest of my post and my anecdotes; we have to post a sign that says we expect people to be professionals, yet conference attendees continue to lack maturity.
"Lying about deals with the same government that will eventually prosecute you" seems like another pretty obvious rule.

Claiming you have contracts signed when you don't is fraud, but claiming you have $100M in DoD revenue when you don't is elaborate corporate suicide.
What about Michio Kaku? Google always shows him along side when searching for Tyson.
"Riches to those who get there first."

I always hear that but it should be "Riches to those who do it right". A lot of first comers get killed by second comers.
Embed HN comments to your blog
Off-Topic, but anyone else here regret using Wave? Have started with them, but it's not too late for me to move.
never store your data on cloud. lesson learnt from this.
It's funny how Fortnite became the ultimate pitch for UE4's versatility.
The problem is that doesn't scale. If this spreads, it'll quickly grow beyond their ability to contain it.
The 10 essential tracks to listen to with new headphones (2017)
What the world needs now is someone in that role for climate change who can capture an interpretation of that body of science the way that Hawking and Sagan captured the public attention around the big bang and other highly complex abstract concepts in the physics of Astronomy & Cosmology.
Profiling: SIMD and Data Ordering benefits
That article made my head hurt. I think modern life causes this behavior. The political realities of how we live drive people insane and that insanity manifests itself differently according to the individual. Some lash out, some withdraw.

The first decent rebellion that gets going on the US and I'm there. I don't even really care how it turns out, I just hope to get a bullet or two into the right people.
That appears to be an intended future use for WebAssembly: http://webassembly.org/docs/non-web/
Is this for US only?
National School Walkout
Namibia's reparations and Germany's first genocide (2017)
I think for many (myself included) it's not about being unable to appreciate the nuance. It's rather that it gets extremely tiresome to read a comment that 1) seems tonally out of proportion, and 2) comes across as 'white-knighting', as in, policing others on behalf of (hypothetical) others.

While I try not to react too strongly to this behavior (and instead see the intention behind it, which I'd say is commendable), I've become rather allergic to this kind of policing. If you're not personally affected, there's no reason for 1 and not always good reason for 2. If you are personally affected, then it would still be preferable to avoid 1, but I can at least understand.

I suspect a good proportion of downvoters/flaggers feel this way, and would otherwise happily avoid the term 'chick' if it causes offense.
I had a Spirit flight to Charlotte that never took off. I ended up having to cancel my trip entirely. And the interwebs are full of Spirit horror stories.

Also, conventional wisdom is to not fly Spirit if you're of average height or above.
> My guess is a psychopath is somebody has gone through mental anguish in youth

That's an interesting theory. How long have you been working in the field, how many psychopaths have you met, and what is the strongest evidence for your theory?
Sounds like a space ripe for innovation then. Even my accountant struggles with the more esoteric parts of the user interface. If I could find a better payroll solution, I would have already moved on by now.
I'm pretty sure ive been reading it for at least 19 of those 20 years. Frequently I'll be trying to tell someone about something I saw on there to go searching and find that I read about it a decade ago. I can't think of any other site I have visited practically every day for that long.
I think you've pointed out the distinction many miss when talking about simplicity, which results in talking past each other:

simplicity for the user and simplicity for the compiler writer are totally different things. Java is simpler for the user but more complex for the implementer, and C is more complex for the user but simpler for the implementer.
As others have pointed out, platform independent IL is nothing new. There's nothing exciting about WebAssembly outside of the web that hasn't already been done with Java (or countless other technologies).

The true advantage of WebAssembly is that it's so sandboxed that it literally can't do anything on it's own. It can only do something when hosted in a browser where it can use JavaScript to interact with outside world.
May be a silly question but I didn't see it in your FAQ -

Is this only open to currently enrolled students?

Would be very interested in applying as a self-teaching job seeker.
Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+
Here you can find an interview of the Amazon CTO back in 2006.

http://www.se-radio.net/2006/12/episode-40-interview-werner-...
That boggles my mind, do you have any sources I can read to start digging into on this?

Not sure why a question like this would be voted down but my own searches have only turned up articles about galaxies spinning in the same direction.

Someone else commented with some clarification.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16586901
As someone who's currently looking at Bench and Pilot, it seems that Bench is a similar product, albeit much cheaper once one's revenues start to grow. How does Pilot compare to Bench?
He Left the Battlefield in a Body Bag. Then He Woke Up
California Affordable Housing Is No Mystery: Just Build More
Unfortunately pricks.com, by Blake Ross, is no longer online. However, the CDN that hosted it is still up so here is the direct link - it's a script for a comedy show based on theranos, and painfully close to reality
https://web.archive.org/web/20160604083644/http://static1.sq...
In what way do you need to understand the GC before using it? The only thing I can think of is avoiding circular references.
RIP Prof. Stephen Hawking.

I am not very optimistic about another Stephen Hawking or an Einstein. How many of the best minds of our generation are attracted to Physics or Mathematics or Astronomy especially graduate level / Phds ? Some of the folks are getting into computer science but that doesnt help discoveries in cosmology.
The problem lies in when you try to blindly apply these assumptions without anything to back it up. This is true of anything in life.

I get that we sometimes have gut feelings that we can't explain. We have to be honest with ourselves though. "Is it just that I don't want to face reality, or is there truly something that I can't put into words drawing me in this direction?"
The choice to get offended by something as innocuous as the OP is not something I want in my tech discussions so I flagged it. I’m sure many others feel the same way. We don’t need tone policing here.
If stars orbit faster than arms, doesn’t this mean that stars have to occasionally change which arm they’re in? How does that work - some sort of gradual re-clumping of stars?
Well the thing is, due to the redlining practices of yore, black people have a significant disadvantage when compared to even the meager wealth of poor whites. And that's not even getting into the cultural issues surrounding "ghetto" culture (which is also predominantly traceable to redlining.)
can you share your source? that statista link just wants me to sign up before it will show me anything.
He's already 71, so he's still a face to the same people as Hawking was.
I imagine when batteries are more prevalent there will be far more competition in providing grid stabilisation services.

A second order affect I imagine, once there are scores of other systems available locally.
Did you maybe mean: small, satellite galaxies show up in the same orbital plane as the main galaxy's disk.
A closer look at name badges
VR is still a novelty, but Google’s light-field technology could make it art
Reputation is everything in this business. I think you're underestimating the downsides.
Exactly.

Apple didn't do the first personal computer, MP3 player, music store, smart phone, tablet, or smart watch.

Whether they did it all right is a matter of opinion. But they did do it profitably.
Why not keep current article in top and load main feed below, heck they can even hide it till you scroll back to where it 'should be'...but back button to get back to it? Fuck that, I'll just use a different site for tech news.
> Well... the declaration you cited resolves down to a pointer to a wide integer

With a boatload of associated semantics, quite a bunch bein in practice compiler-dependent (looking at you, MSVC volatile).

And a "protected abstract virtual base pure virtual private destructor" does not mean anything -- or at least any code that compiles.
What Breaking the 4 Minute Mile Taught Us About Conventional Thinking
Ask the Duck
From experience, most of them would have discarded their own founders' CVs.
This is neat but legalist is just replacing one kind of scuzzy with a different kind of scuzzy.
Great, then Trump can push for national ID cards with chip and pin for all sorts of identity verification. Let's wait for adults to be in office first.
Those kind of decisions are made on a purely emotional, reactive basis without going through the rational game theory analysis you laid out. Most wealthy investors are no more rational than the rest of us.
On at least one occasion that I can recall, an obituary for Steve Jobs was published prematurely. As you can imagine, this caused a minor panic before retraction.
The observation is for stars at the _edge_ of the galaxy. Sol is not on the edge.
Snarky: A new programming language for verifiable computation
I've heard he's not very personable[0], and that's important for pop-scientists.

[0]: https://youtu.be/EnMMirZBMlc
The fact that it wasn't going to win the contest ought to have been obvious to anyone who actually used skype.

Their android app was a horror story. There desktop app was ho hum, chat reminded me of icq and it was completely obvious that the major players were going to be people who had hip social networks or were well positioned like say google with all android users and apple with all iphone users.

Skype was a tool to talk to grandma and I didn't forget the fact that they tied the number of people in a group chat to less than 10 if you didn't use an intel processor and resolution to buying a logitech camera.

Turns out even grandma has a facebook account now in fact she had one when lunatics decided it was a good idea to buy skype.
Cool idea, my university has a stellar co-op program for Engineering and Computer Science students, and other universities in Canada do as well (Waterloo, UBC, etc.) and I am curious as to what differs you from universities that have these co-op programs because co-op is mandatory at UVic and Waterloo and has helped fund my way alongside many other engineering students ways through their degree.

Also 7% of first year salary seems steep, considering co-op costs are around 8k at my university (don't know about others off the top of my head). Which are covered pretty easily with mandatory 16 months of work experience.
https://sqlite.org/fasterthanfs.html

This page shows that SQLlite is 5 times faster than Win10 filesystem, but the performance gains are much small in other systems.

Can anyone comment on this?
Yes, our solar system travels from arm to arm! while the overall shape of the galaxy remains.

By the way, our transit between and into these galaxy arms is theorized to coincide with past mass-extinction events, across tens of millions of years.
But, the arms don't rotate either! There are some great animations here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Density_wave_theory

The article was about stars on the edge of a galaxy.

> “But regardless of whether a galaxy is very big or very small, if you could sit on the extreme edge of its disk as it spins, it would take you about a billion years to go all the way round.”
FYI - Amazon is a huge driver of small businesses. More than 50% of all the revenue from their whole e-commerce business is from 3rd party sellers, who are generally small operators.
No; you just give an example about how to customize the suffix based on the number, but don't say that it is "programming" or "software development" or anything like that.

https://www.gnu.org/gnu/rms-lisp.en.html

"Multics Emacs proved to be a great success — programming new editing commands was so convenient that even the secretaries in his office started learning how to use it. They used a manual someone had written which showed how to extend Emacs, but didn't say it was a programming. So the secretaries, who believed they couldn't do programming, weren't scared off. They read the manual, discovered they could do useful things and they learned to program.