skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“We do not "come into" this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree. As the ocean "waves," the universe "peoples." Every individual is an expression of the whole realm of nature, a unique action of the total universe.” - Alan Watts, I highly recommend his talks
Asking "do you disapprove or approve?" skews the numbers higher than asking "should it be illegal or legal?"
I'm interested in what happened to the "at least 5 years before it's viable" that seemed to get repeated so often in threads 6 months to a year ago?

Are these only working on very specific types of streets and traffic volumes or was everyone wrong and the tech accelerated very fast?
I'm happy to see people do that. And thank Alexa or Google Now when they get what they want. Otherwise I'm afraid that a degraded social status for conversational AIs will result in a tiered status system that will eventually include some people.

Not that it doesn't happen now, but I'd prefer to have the trend avoid further tiering.
I was going to make the same comment.
Can you link to a specific rocket booster that was reused? Doesn't count if it's a retrorocket helping slow down some capsule that also has a parachute.
Sent the message, thank you very much for the opportunity.
> Would projecting the outside world on the inside of a tin-can car meet the benefits ascribed to windows

The motion-sickness reducing benefits of staring at the horizon is usually ascribed to the horizon being very far away and not moving along with the car. Until your projections are holographic, it won't help.
I've repeatedly thought about moving to Atlanta, because I really like the city. I won't be able to afford to if Amazon moves there. Somebody who lives there who hasn't already bought themselves a sandbag-wall against ridiculous rent spikes would probably be wise to consider moving.

(I don't want to own a car again; MARTA, being a good public transit option that is taken by people across the socioeconomic spectrum and so there's political weight on the side of keeping it good, makes Atlanta one of few American cities where that's potentially tenable.)
Also, it would be a really bad idea to remove the fallback for emergencies.
Fair enough... To a point. I can check it out, build it, and email you a copy. Or some other friend could.

With Windows, all I can do is suggest you switch to Ubuntu or something.
Point of the article/most news is to trigger NIMBYism or some provoke some fear/anger reaction, not provide an objective analysis. You need to pay for most objective and informed analysis
Digg Reader is shutting down
>The OpenCL working group has taken the decision to converge its roadmap with Vulkan, and use Vulkan as the basis for the next generation of explicit compute APIs – this also provides the opportunity for the OpenCL roadmap to merge graphics and compute.

From the article suggests at some point OpenCL is going to run on top of Vulkan.
What is modern vs not-modern democracy?

Romans and USAmericans both owned slaves.
Do stones curl in the opposite direction in the southern hemisphere?

Would that be called the curliolis effect?
How important is “business-savvy” in a developer?
"allies"
I've not used Canopy but from the screenshots I can see that they have aggregated reporting which Jaeger does not (yet) have. This makes Jaeger good for looking at individual traces, but actually getting overall performance data out is hard. They do have a data pipeline on the roadmap though.
I appreciate the code architecture observations, but this result is exciting as hell. I am fascinated by ontogeny. Who knows? A century from now, lots of currently unimaginable things could be traced back to this.
But surly Amazon won't decide the city based solely on just their physical needs. Say city A is technically the best, but offers no tax breaks. City B is just slightly behind city A, but offers attractive tax breaks. Wouldn't that cause Amazon to seriously consider city B?
"Let's Build a Compiler" by Crenshaw: https://compilers.iecc.com/crenshaw/

It's an old classic, using somewhat outdated technologies, but there are more moderns versions floating around, for example a C + x86 one: https://github.com/lotabout/Let-s-build-a-compiler
Is this the end game of consolidation of an industry? Where are the supposed advantages and efficiencies of all that merging and streamlining?
Where does this fear come from? Atlanta is adding ~ 100k jobs every year, and HQ2 is projected to be ~ 5k per year for a decade. Developments adding a few thousand jobs are announced every other month. Anyone worried about rapid expansion and gentrification in Atlanta has been ignoring our reality for a long time.
Good point - I hadn't thought of that and never read it in any safety blurb... seems to make reasonable sense though.
In my family we call this the stalker app. It's very good for finding out where specifically where someone is, even in malls and other places you might not expect GPS location to work all that well. (Thanks surveil– I mean wifi!)

It is a system where you have to give permission for people to see your location, and you can revoke it at any time should you wish, but it's still real creepy. The good for us (knowing where the immediate family is at pretty much any time) outweighs the bad, but I wouldn't dream of sharing my location like this with a friend – even a very close one – let alone strangers.
0. What species you're born as.
The original title seems more honest.
Unless you have a reason for keeping them /dev/null is probably the best answer.

If you have a reason for keeping them think about who needs to see them again and on what timescale. As other poster mentioned legal reasons override GDPR.

How big are your logs? Do you really need them?
I wonder if that has more to do with C++ undefined name mangling than anything else. C exports are beautifully simple to read. C++ exports on the other hand are some sort of alternate reality mind-bending shitstorm due to the language not defining a scheme for decorators.

Maybe I'm wrong and hopefully someone can correct me; I don't have deep export knowledge outside of simply using C exports, but it seems this decision has had long-standing repercussions for people wanting to use FFIs outside of C.
Clojure For the Brave and True includes an excellent clojure setup for emacs[0]

[0] https://www.braveclojure.com/basic-emacs/
I love that you still need to buckle the seatbelt for the non-existent driver.
Because I'm rather tired of the silly claims. I write Rust. I write Kotlin. I write C++. I write Ruby. And I also write JavaScript. Horses for courses--and the mind-meltingly stupid sneering nonsense should just end. Just...end.

I used to smarm about it. I was wrong to. You should stop, because you are wrong now.
Why isn't it SOP to isolate safety critical components from the web?

Is this just incompetence/cost savings, or is there some other legitimate reason for building this vulnerability into so much of our global infrastructure?
Not sure it's an Anglo view. The State has a monopoly on force and regulation, allowing for the governing of degrees of Capitalism. Capitalism has no such control over the State.
In this day and age of great connectivity it is a bad and stupid idea to make 500000 people commute everyday to headquarters and downgrade the overall quality of life for all the long time residents.
Repost from yesterday.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16576587
Unfortunately I can't edit that anymore :(
"empirical research" would be sociology, which a contrarian would reject out of hand.
"Illegal content means any information which is not in compliance with Union law or the law of a Member State, such as content inciting people to terrorism, racist or xenophobic, illegal hate speech, child sexual exploitation, illegal commercial practices, breaches of intellectual property rights and product safety. What is illegal offline is also illegal online."

In Spain, recently twelve young adults got two years of jail time for "hate speech" lyrics in a rap song. It's a country that didn't yet resolve its fascist past. Not only that, but the post fraquist party (PP) does have a branch at EU level (EPP), and that's where many of those silly proposals originate from.
Principles of container-based application design
Instead of wasting time on a (rather biased) critique, read the original paper:

"Talent vs Luck: the role of randomness in success and failure" by A. Pluchino. A. E. Biondo, A. Rapisarda

https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.07068

Are the rich wealthy because they somehow earned it? Examination reveals that this is not true and that the most extreme cases of wealth accumulation (which show a surprisingly consistent pattern across cultures) are attributable more to luck than to skill. Mark Buchanan examines this in his excellent book "The Social Atom" (pp.172-174):

https://www.amazon.com/Social-Atom-Cheaters-Neighbor-Usually...

A reference from that book:

Jean-Philippe Bouchaud and Marc Mezard, "Wealth Condensation in a simple model of economy":

https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0002374

See also Christopher Jencks, Inequality (New York: Basic Books, 1972) which focuses more on the effect (or non-effect) of education on income:

https://www.amazon.com/Inequality-Reassessment-Effect-School...

If extreme wealth is largely due to luck then I see no reason why government should not lop the "lucky" portion off for its purposes. Of course there will always be argument as to precisely where the line is drawn between luck and skill.

Finally we must not forget bad luck, which makes fools of us all. Just as there are those who are super-wealthy due to luck, there are those whose livelihood has been destroyed by luck. I do feel an obligation to help them back onto their feet.
Chemical plants (and other such facilities) should not be Internet connected. The equipment and tools should not even have a network stack.

Workers in such a facility should not have their general purpose phones and computers with them.

This is not a panacea - there are conceivable attack vectors for non networked equipment - but it raises the bar significantly and should be the bare minimum of acceptability for designing and running these plants.
"By signing, you accept Change.org’s Terms of Service and Privacy Policy, and agree to receive occasional emails about campaigns on Change.org. You can unsubscribe at any time."

I support the campaign but that one sentence prevented me from signing. I've made that mistake before and the deluge of emails I received from "partners" was astonishing.
> This can be something as simple as having saved up money

You need a huge amount of luck before you can even start doing this.
Part of me dislikes the title "Blood Unicorn" for being sensationalist, but part of me really likes it for being completely accurate and even a little bit poetic. It kind of feels like all titles should strive for this balance, but I also kind of hate it. I'm sure there's a German word for what I'm feeling!
Let's not throw the baby out with the bathwater...

Yes, we need to get rid of poor shaming, but that doesn't mean we should also get rid of the culture of hard word, frugality, and discipline.
There is some shoddy journalism here:

“If attackers developed a technique against Schneider equipment in Saudi Arabia, they could very well deploy the same technique here in the United States,” said James A. Lewis, a cybersecurity expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington think tank.

Yet the NY Times forgets to cite their own article that shows Unite Arab Emirates, who is politically tied to Saudi Arabia was one of the largest donors to Center for Strategic and International Studies [0] as well as CSIS own listing [1]

All of the investigators believe the attack was most likely intended to cause an explosion that would have killed people

Times does not list which investigators they have spoken to directly.

and again, which intelligence analysts?

What worries investigators and intelligence analysts

Two weeks later, the same attackers hit other Saudi targets with the same computer virus. On Jan. 23, 2017, they struck again

How did they establish it was the same attackers?

The article then talks about the Shamoon attack attributed to Iran with links and attribution to an earlier article by one of the writers and then in it says,

The attack in August was not a Shamoon attack. It was much more dangerous.

If it was not a Shamoon attack, then why mention that. Or why not just say, past attacks were attributed to Iran.

Once again, Investigators believe a nation-state was responsible because there was no obvious profit motive Times does not indicate which "investigators" believes that.

Also, it seems like more and more "journalism" is relying on "believe" rather than evidence and facts.

Then once again, Cybersecurity experts said Iran, China, Russia the United States and Israel had the technical sophistication to launch such attacks

No quote or attribution to which expert or their level of experience.

The article ends horribly with,
Tasnee said in an email that it had hired experts from Symantec and IBM to study the attack against it

"Study the attack", Which means the experts have not had a chance to review the evidence nor Times had spoken directly to these hired experts to get their answers. But they wrote a whole article with their own conclusions.

[0] https://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/09/07/us/politics/foreign-po...

[1] https://www.csis.org/support-csis/our-donors/government-dono...
Probably somewhere in the middle. Arizona doesn't get a lot of weather and development is heavily skewed to be new (so the roads are at least more consistent and such).
Are we could allow local communities to govern themselves and decide what should and shouldn’t be legal when it comes to this stuff? Federalism and all that.

There are good arguments from each side, so a top down one size fits all approach doesn't seem like the proper way to go about it.
You should read what Schopenhauer had to say about Jews.
> Lobbying is not synonymous with corruption.

I don't understand how this statement is in any way true? Corruption is generally considered illegal and lobbying is not; the dictionary definition of corruption doesn't require it to be illicit though, so by that definition it would include lobbying.

> you need the industry as source of technical knowledge

There is a world of difference between seeking out/commissioning technical input from industry on a subject and the industry spending significant sums of money on actively trying to bring their claimed technical knowledge to you unsolicited.
Thanks, I forgot about crystal. Now we just need Crystal on Rails :) It would force out some of the magic for sure, but that may be a good thing.
The dynamic by all these commentators has always seemed to be predicated on the idea that self driving vehicles somehow either need to be universally useful for all driving tasks or they will stay in the lab. In reality the way this stuff is going to roll out is incrementally. Due to the prevalence of on-demand driving services now, self driving vehicles can be deployed literally just-in-time for routes that are known to be safe under current conditions.

It's perfectly reasonable that once an existence proof is shown for one single commonly taken route in America to be handled autonomously (as it already has been) that that is all the foothold needed to start to deliver real economic benefits from the technology, and hence will align incentives for it to, eventually, be perfected.
I guess waymo was just very conservative with their press releases, and people failed at reading between the lines.
Great Depression and various Communist Revolutions might fit your bill.
It totally competes with Word for some documents. Of course there are documents that are possible in Word but not Markdown, and equally there are documents that are better to write in Markdown (e.g. Readmes). But there is a decent amount of overlap for documents that are basically lightly formatted text plus pictures.
As a current high school student: hell no.

I've tried writing study guides for myself in Markdown, and while it is useful, it is 10x easier to do it in Word.

Plus, as many people are saying, everyone uses Word. My school even gives out Office 365 subscriptions for free.
There are googlers who do the same thing, mostly work in git until the branch is ready for one big perforce changelist to review and commit.
I learn a lot of UI design by using what I make (going through entering data, pulling up screens, printing, etc. as if I were the end user) and seeing if it works, asking others who use it a lot what is easy and what is not, and comparing with interfaces on similar applications.
A pretty concise regex engine, along with the explanation: https://www.cs.princeton.edu/courses/archive/spr09/cos333/be...
That’s pretty impressive. The current generation of VR is too pixelated. Hopefully this will fix that. Now only the GPU needs to keep up. Note 60 GHz link on the Vive Pro.
It's worth noting that Icahn and all the "key people" (according to Wikipedia) at Bain are Jews.

But I'm sure that's just a coincidence, like their predominance in every other major pillar of finance and media.

Just a coincidence, goy!
The parliament has a history of rejecting stupid proposals like software patents. Please take your rhetoric elsewhere.
I don’t think either go to where I would like to spend time. If you want to go into the country, you need a car. A bus could get you to a place, but everything would be so spread out you’d have to hitchhike or use crazily expensive taxis—i’m talking 1$/minute here.

But, I see your point about going to other large public transit areas and I agree wholeheartedly. It’s already about twenty times cheaper to BART to SFO than to grab a lyft. Yet I grab the lyft anyway....
The specs sound impressive and would truely make VR much more complelling (I have an oculus rift and the resolution is noticable even on low spec games). On the other hand I would wait until actual units are out there but it doesn't seem that outlandish that Google and LG would be unable to pull this off.

I assume this is targeted to the gaming market because at those specs unless you sell it at a loss the MSRP is going to be at least $500. I wonder if this signals Google entring into the VR arena as a publisher to compete with Oculus. I know that also VR is used for Advertisements and they have engagement for properly setup ads for VR as 5 minutes or more so maybe they will be pushing on that front. From what I have seen from Google their VR has mostly been focused on mobile so them focusing on the high end market is really interesting.
Then you have Portacle !

Emacs isn't the only editor too: https://lispcookbook.github.io/cl-cookbook/editor-support.ht... Lem is also a ready-to-use editor (ncurses or Electron)(but Emacs+Slime is still the best experience (maybe vim?))

You can follow this guide to get started too: https://lispcookbook.github.io/cl-cookbook/getting-started.h...

And hopefully this Cookbook will help you along the way: https://lispcookbook.github.io/cl-cookbook/

Quicklisp takes a couple commands to install, then it's easy. To install a library: `(ql:quickload :my-lib)`. Thinks of it closer to apt than to pip/npm, so you don't upgrade one lib but a QL distribution.

You don't really have to deal with asdf. It is used to create a project declaration, which can be generated for you (see "getting started", cl-project). ASDF helps in creating executables, it's also explained in the cookbook.
Salvini will not become PM in Italy. His center-right coalition was held together by the requirements of our electoral law and is already starting to fall apart. Di Maio will most likely become the PM of a very weak coalition and while his party had strong anti-EU claims they pretty much retracted every single one of them as soon as the polls started to show a strong chance of winning the election.
There is the famous Linux From Scratch [1] which teaches how to build a functioning GNU Linux system from the grounds up.

[1] http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/
You can ping me directly @ hn+whatcha@say.com — and mentioning HN is helpful.
Wonder if it would be cheaper / safer / lighter to remove windows from airplanes and just mount window shaped monitors in their place that display footage from fuselage mounted camera.

Wonder how people would react to that.
I don't think an article about one thing not talking about another thing is really that strange.
Well, HN has gone full leftist social justice! The article complains about how there are very few black and mestizo employees without ever wondering if there are differences in racial populations that would account for this. There is certainly no problem in finding Chinese engineers is there?
Canada has won medals in men's and women's curling every year since they reintroduced it in 1998. 2018 was actually the first year we didn't, winning only in the new mixed doubles event. The Swedish women have medalled in all but one.

So I wouldn't read too much into this. Countries where curling is popular tend to win Olympic curling medals, and countries where curling is popular also tend to study it.
> If the state can just clamp down however it wants on private enterprise, then eventually all private enterprise becomes state enterprise. See China.

The leap you just made from cities not being able to be extorted by corporations for tax cuts to all private enterprise becoming state enterprise is so massive I have no idea how you even did it.
Plus you get the benefit that the AIs will remember your kindness in the uprising
At this point, I'd be more concerned with improving the optics: lenses that don't smudge and don't have the Fresnel lens flaring, or perhaps even with a wider field of view.
Existing work authorization, yes, but we don't yet have the resources to file new H-1B cases, for example.
"determination" as a trait is likely genetic. Most personality traits appear to be.

At the very list there's the issue of having enough resources to fail 9 times and not end up homeless. Most people can afford to fail maybe once.
Absolute junk science. A negative contribution to net human insight.

>The simulations show that although talent has a Gaussian distribution among agents, the resulting
distribution of success/capital after a working life of 40 years, follows a power law which respects
the ”80-20” Pareto law for the distribution of wealth found in the real world.

As opposed to what? What kind of distribution might you expect? Based on the insanely simple model that was presented, what other possible outcome could have been drawn?

>In this paper, starting from very simple assumptions, we have presented an agent-based model
which is able to quantify the role of talent and luck in the success of people’s careers.

No, you have not. You have presented an agent-based model which is able to quantify the role of talent and luck in a 2D roulette game with a completely contrived, non-empirical bias parameter you've named "talent". It bears literally no relationship to reality, where random massive doublings of wealth are the exception, not the rule.

It really bothers me that people write news articles about the impact of this "research".
Yes, I stand corrected. It's difficult to predict how people would think/live in a Utopian society.

Perhaps cars wouldn't be owned, but borrowed/rented whenever people would want to have an experience like you described.
Fantastic. I've heard that to truly remove the awkwardness of VR, the refresh rates need to go as high as possible. 240hz would be better, and I've heard it argued that 1024hz is optimal.

Also, with high enough resolutions, you don't need anti-aliasing. This is pretty close to 8K, which is probably around the time that anti-aliasing stops mattering.
That type of thinking led to C++, a language whose contributors do not know how to stop adding features.