skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't care about your problems as a developer. As a consumer I expect a watch to last 5-10 years. As a developer working in the consumer space you need to get out of the mindset that everyone is replacing everything every 2-3 years. That's neither reasonable nor sustainable.
Thanks! I'll pass that along.
I feel like you are disagreeing with me but also reiterating my point.

You don't need to be in field in Kansas to be safe outside. If you're in the suburbs you have lawns, parking lots, or streets and there aren't windows above you. Obviously if you're in downtown LA or SF don't go outside. But there's a lot of people that don't live in, or aren't going to be in, an area with multi-story buildings completely surrounding them. You can easily get far enough away from a couple story building (parking lot) and be safe. That is much safer than inside said building.

Here's the rule of thumb "If something can fall on you outside, go to a door frame or braced structure." But I'll reiterate, it depends on your initial location.
"Planet Earth" Parody Imagines a World Overrun by Creepy Boston Dynamics Robots
> One of the hardest parts of working with WebAssembly is getting different kinds of values into and out of functions. That’s because WebAssembly currently only has two types: integers and floating point numbers.

So... The only overlap between Javascript and webassembly is floating point numbers? Are they the same type of floating point?

And is the conversion unicode-string > js float > ws int - or something else?

Or does js have integers now?
Previous discussion on this topic:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16539857
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16567009
How well do you know lisp?
I'm skeptical this will ever become a reality. There's been a lot of talk over here in Japan about trying the same thing, but the scientists researching it seem to be in agreement that predicting a specific earthquake is pretty much impossible.

Rooting for anyone who actually does manage to do it though.
The tricks discussed in CERT classes (which are well worth taking - very interesting material) is to go to back of store because few people think to. Same with concerts and other events - people instinctively run to the entrance in which they entered, rather than the nearest.

Secondly, if you're in the midst of huge shelves with no escape (like a home depot) get under the first shelf. the shelving won't collapse downwards, but if a neighboring shelf falls sideways you'll be protected.

Harder to do in a real emergency, but good ideas, and thinking them through can be enough to execute them when needed.

Anyway - I highly encourage taking a local CERT class if you're in the US, or finding the equivalent wherever you live.
While it is true that cell phones in planes put more burden on access points, it has nothing to do with an FAA regulation. Why would the FAA care about a private telephony company's equipment?

The FAA regulation was always about interference, plain and simple. The fact that it took so long to change the rule is basic regulatory sclerosis.
> to generalize that the violence in Chicago is endemic to the rest of the nation is pure fantasy.

That wasn't the comment.

The comment was that most surgeons in the Netherlands can wait decades before seeing a gunshot wound. If they want hands-on experience, the US is a good place to learn. I think that's a very reasonable comment (EDIT maybe "years" is more reasonable than "decades"...) and if you account for accidents and self-harm, you really don't need to go to Chicago or Baltimore. The vast majority of gun wounds in the US are accidents or self-harm and occur all over the US, including "quiet little towns". I would argue that the real fantasy is to think that the gun violence epidemic is limited to big cities with black guys in hoodies shooting at each other.
It's not too surprising. As soon as any kind of principle, good or bad, starts to have some kind of power when it's invoked, bad actors will swarm around it to use it for their own ends.
It’s a shame in some ways.

Setting aside the rest of it, the core Amazon experience is kinda annoying. Trying to find anything in its morass of Bad metadata is increasingly challenging. The marketplace aspect is comprehensively shitty, to the point that I will entirely avoid anything that isn’t actually shipped by Amazon.

Haven’t you ever hit a product page for say, a pair of shoes, and the “colour” options are things like “Blue”, “Green”, “EXTRA LARGE”, “pair”, “SHOE”, “red” - each of which actually turn out to be different products from different sellers with different delivery terms. Or a listing for an SD card that combines different manufacturers for different sizes, except some of them are actually SSDs and other ones are 3.5” hard disks? I’m full of rage just thinking about it.

And it’s a shame because ordering from Amazon is great. Fast and reliable delivery, easy returns, that kinda stuff. If it was easier to find things on it, I’d use it even more. As it is, I barely tolerate it, and there are other options that are actually pretty appealing.
How a Brain Injury Ruined My Favorite Fruit
"It's easier to not do something stupid than it is to do something smart." A good software engineer knows most of the usual ways to write broken code, and doesn't do them.
I think that is an interesting insight - the majority of Google's offerings are from aquisitions of 'established' implementations, whereas Amazon's are developed in-house to solve a pain-point, that is felt by other businesses, too.

So, is Amazon really more B2B, while Google is B2C?

Is Amazon using e-commerce like a US university looks at undergrads for funding?
Are you the a_poem_for_your_sprog of Hackernews?
I might even prefer 5 average lisp programmers to 50 code monkeys.
> LESS THAN 10% of buying is done online

I have a lot of my online purchases sent to my employer because we have a lot of porch pirates in my neighborhood.

My boss and fellow colleagues would claim that I account for a large part of that 10%...
Stephen Hawking: A physicist's appreciation
that can happen, but it can also serve as an excuse.

in git, for example, why can’t i switch branches with uncommitted changes? it makes no sense why i can’t do that, but yet, there it is.

> there’s a reason why more complicated tools like git have taken over from less-capable tools like Subversion and CVS.

i don’t think the reasons have much to do with usability or even capability. i came to git from perforce, where the latter was much easier to use, reason about, fix issues, and has much better tooling, in particular visual tools. it’s also amazing how slow git is.
I can think of a political example, too.
Buy trains.
> could it be possible to artificially start an earthquake in order to prevent "power build-up"

Look up the research around hydraulic fracturing (specifically, waste water injection).

It appears that there isn't much consensus around whether or not this is beneficial.
Couldn't a large galaxy rotate as fast as a small galaxy, without the need for dark matter, if the large galaxy had a sufficiently more massive black hole at its center than the small galaxy.

The formula for the orbital period around a central mass is:

3 1/2
/ R \
T = 2 Pi |-----|
\ G M /

where T is the period, R is radius of the orbit, G is the gravitational constant, and M is the mass of the central body. That's Newtonian, but I think that is good enough for this.

This says that if Big Galaxy has a radius k times that of Small Galaxy, it won't rotate slower than Small Galaxy as long as Big Galaxy's mass is at least k^3 times Small Galaxy's mass.
This is the same observation that I made to myself when I attended IEEE 802.11 meetings. So much people from so many places and nearly no black people (African Americans or African Europeans).

I tried to dig the subject and my conclusion was massive and deep bias (including in myself).
$1k a month is a lot to spend. I've bought kegs before (usually those last 3-5months with people buy in) and I still don't hit $1k a month. Maybe I'll go out 2-3 times a week. Still I'm no where near $1k a month.
Amazon sells at a much much higher premium than Alphabet and Apple. If their growth ever begins to falter they won't be such a hot stock. Amazon has an amazing ability to pinch pennies and beat estimates every time. But with Microsoft and Google pushing on their cloud margins, I wonder how long that will last. They are the enemy of a lot of people. Google, Microsoft and Walmart to name a few. Not saying Amazon is doomed, just think people may be a bit over optimistic in thinking they will not hit road blocks going forward.
I wonder if the author knows that coffee and most types of tea have approximately the same amount of caffeine in a cup.
I hope there's a reroll option. My build is interesting but I can't figure out how to play it.
I used my own experience working in a variety of companies including large corporations, and the way they sometimes told us information ahead of earnings and how cautious we needed to be about when we might sell something. I have never been more than a second level dev manager, but I can't imagine how this could happen by accident. So I had required training, cautions every quarter ahead of time, reminders when there was an open period, reminders about not talking to the press. This isn't rocket science. So someone who works on earnings announcements, knows the quarterly facts early, has experience with this just forgot or something? It's not credible.
Wait... How did he have his life destroyed? It just says that he hasn't talked to his grandfather in awhile...

He went on to start a biotech company (that seems to be doing alright) and was a Forbes 30 under 30 in 2017...

I don't see how his life was destroyed...
Mesa in Xerox Star, TIMI in IBM i, Language Environment on IBM z, MCP in Unisys ClearPath, UCSD Machines are some of the most well known examples.

Using bytecode as portable executable format has been a tradition in mainframes since the early 60's.
Well, according to Forbes, Holmes is worth _nothing_[0], so $500,000 is probably fairly painful. Plus, relinquishing ~19 million shares regardless of their value has to hurt. Also she no longer has the majority of votes in her own company. And as a CEO who can't be an officer of a public company for 10 years, yeah that probably really hurts too. Not to mention her name is effectively toxic pretty much forever now. So she's not going to jail, but those penalties certainly look painful to me.

[0] https://www.forbes.com/sites/matthewherper/2016/06/01/from-4...
This is funny to read if you remember that teams within Amazon are given a lot of autonomy and responsibility, instead of being given plans from a central authority. IIRC, AWS was built as an internal thing to allow independent IT teams within Amazon to cooperate more easily, and then productized.
To avoid this couldn't an exec announce their intention to sell as public and early as possible and cite "divorce/third house/mega yacht" as the reason for the sale?
it won't, these are stateless containers
It depends on the construction material. If the building is unreinforced masonry, the doorframe is the strongest part of the wall (with respect to earthquakes). If it is not, it is no stronger or weaker than the rest of the wall. (See https://earthquake.usgs.gov/learn/topics/megaqk_facts_fantas...).

The most useful place to be in a major earthquake is anywhere where things are not going to swing into or fall onto you. Such as underneath a desk (assuming it's not a cheap construction that will buckle under any significant weight).
One of the great things is that the world has already dealt with this problem much the same way we've dealt with cars breaking down on the road and trains breaking down on the tracks: We can tow them away.

In addition, it doesn't seem like a large hurdle to design ships designed to recharge another ship's battery similar to how we can design refueling ships.
google is way too big for this to matter.
I entered.

Saw the nu-male pic

Closed the attention whore's personal blog.
The author makes mention of paying $10 per drink, then goes on to include alcohol-induced food consumption.
You don't need to do this in real time, instead you could log the data (e.g. mouse clicks, key presses) to something like a database, Kafka, or Kenesis. Now you've unloaded the anti cheat logic to other servers.

You don't necessarily need to ban a player immediately. If you can accurately ban people within a day of using a cheat, then that's a pretty serious deterrent from using them.
Yeah, he was kind of a douche, but it's pretty obvious he only got slammed with that kind of time because he didn't play the game right.
Think of the scale you would need to operate in (and safely so).
Couldn't stand that. Boring as hell. Going for drinks is the easiest way to get people out for a fun night.

Have fun having no social life and being bored out your nut.
I'm not sure what's the point. Predicting the sine-wave is pretty trivial with NN, and doesn't require a RNN.
> I was 24 years old and dumb as a brick. Oh sure, I’d had lots of book learning and was quick with ideas, but I knew shockingly little

Take note, fledglings! That was him, me, and with any luck, future you speaking.
I like to think of each programming language as a separate musical instrument.

If Java is a tuba, then maybe Python is a trumpet. They're two very different instruments, but they share a lot of the same underlying intuitions. In fact, I would say that C-style languages are probably equivalent to the collection of brass instruments. There are major variations from trombones to trumpets to french-horns, but not as large as you'd think.

So if you've only played tuba, what happens when somebody hands you a violin? You may understand "music theory" (or computer science) pretty well, but actually sitting down to learn the violin will give you strange insights that aren't apparent on brass instruments. For instance, violins' strings are tuned perfect-fifths apart -- certain scale patterns naturally jump out at you.
In the same way, let's compare Haskell/Idris/R to stringed-instruments. It's easy to switch between them when you realize that a viola is a cello is an upside-down bass-guitar. And at a higher level, learning violin and tuba together will make you better at BOTH instruments! As a bonus, playing music is more fun when you can antipate the habits and difficulties of your peers' instruments.

As a side-note, I think Lisp is either a piano or a theremin. I'm not sure why.

Anyway, I think learning each "family" of languages is a worthy aim for every engineer. Here are the groups that I personally hope to master over my lifetime:

- Hard : Assembly
- C-Like : C, Java, Python, JS, PHP, etc.
- Pure Fun : Haskell, Idris, OCaml, Elm, etc.
- Distributed : Erlang, Elixir
- OO : Smalltalk
- Lispy : Scheme, CL, Clojure
- Stringy : BASH, Perl, SNOBOL
- Code-Golfy : APL, J, K, AntLang
- Stacky : Forth, Joy
- Data-Driven : R, Mathematica, Wolfram Language
- Logic-Driven : Prolog

This list is long, but don't let it discourage you! Every family has plenty of magical ideas that make the next one easier to master.

Best of luck on your journey!
Source?

Mayo Clinic says otherwise: https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/nutrition-and-h...

Typical caffeine content in 8oz of brewed coffee: 95-165mg.

Typical caffeine content in 8oz of black tea: 25-48mg.
The other advantage is that once the seismic wave is detected, you can transmit that info at lightspeed vs the 10s of km/h that seismic waves propagate.
Dunno about you but if I were pentesting a machine and found out it was a VM, then maybe I'd try to get a foothold into the hypervisor, host, or sibling VMs. Not boring.
I came here to comment the same.
Oddly enough, you can still pay an extra fee on your electric bill to be certain the energy comes from a clean energy source. My house does so.
A lot of practice, it seems. Chicago has one shooting every 4 hours and one murder every 17 hours.
Criminal conviction for French amateur cyclist found using hidden motor
In general the answer is no. The gist seems to be that because the richter scale for magnitude is logarithmic is would take thousands of 3.0 quakes to equal a 6.0. More info here in "Common Myths and Misconceptions" http://seismo.berkeley.edu/outreach/faq.html
There are still quite a few JVM implementations still, they just tend to be specialized in embedded, military or factory automation systems.
That's because the OP is clueless. :-(

DON'T use lead-free solder, unless forced to. Lead-free solder is a nightmare.

Use leaded 63/37 solder, although 60/40 is fine.
Speech to the annual data privacy conference
This is why I'm very happy to pay Feedly money.
They keep track of my RSS feeds and give a nice API so I can use my app of choice to read them (or the web interface). And because I pay them, it's in their interests not to fuck it up by trying to be too clever.
They didn't actually build it. Stanford owned the land and building (and built most of it) while Theranos paid for internal improvements. Stanford also recently sold the property (maybe a year or so ago) and 1701 is available for lease now.
According to google ...

Coffee: 95mg / 8oz

1 shot espresso: 64 mg / 1oz

Black Tea: 30mg / 8 oz

Green Tea: 35mg / 8 oz
As always the typical hn reader is completely oblivious to the actual reasons why Google banned crypto related ads. For those who don't know, phishing has been plaguing Google ads and that is likely their primary reason for doing away with crypto ads, NOT because it has anything to do with ICOs. But why bother preaching it to the wrong choir... You guys know everything here.
Depending on your proximity to the epicenter, sometimes you can hear a big earthquake before it hits. It won't help much if it hits in the middle of the night when you're asleep, but a second or two is enough to drop under your desk and avoid the most frequent danger, falling objects.
I like notifications for some websites though so don't want to block them fully. Facebook/Messenger spring to mind for notifications I actually want.
There are a huge number of developers out there who spend the overwhelming majority of their time working solo or on with a couple of peers.
The tag is immutable because you had to first delete it, then recreate it, to change its value. Technically the tag might have the same label (say v0.0.1), but it still is a new tag, that so happens to be labeled the same as your old immutable tag.
I have a series 0 and I haven't felt the urge to change at all. Is the series 3 that much better? Like life-changing better?
I grew up with Linux and have used cvs, svn, git, and mercurial, not doing complex stuff, just basic. Out of all of them git is the most inconsistent and difficult to learn, both at the command level and in trying to deal with the docs and community around it. Everyone seems to think everyone else is a mathematician and every doc or message has this air of “if you don’t intrinsically understand DAGs then you’re just not worthy to use this tool”.
They're ok for recurring monthly invoices that you run through credit card. I use Intuit Merchant Servics for ACH (traditional checking account + routing id). It's only $.50 per transaction. As I said my caveat is they count your transaction twice (once for your invoice and again when Wave deposits $ into your account). The 'description' is pretty obvious and you just need to delete it manually. I gripe every time I delete such a large transaction. If you use like square for your monthly credit card, then of course Wave's bookkeeping will just count the transaction once...the deposit into your bank from Wave. But at this point, Wave isn't making money off me and I feel a little guilty...but that's their fault. Their invoicing is simple to use so i'll stick with it, for now.

The bookkeeping...besides mint, I don't have any other experience with bookkeeping. I will look more into Quickbooks, though. Business is growing and need to make everything simple.
Serious question. Wut's a 'nu-male' ?
You just make it harder for web developers to provide nice experiences.

If it's broken, don't expect us to fix it.
I hear people say this a lot but I don't know where you're getting your coffee if that's the case. Any time I have a coffee I'm bouncing off the walls after, whereas a tea is very subtle in comparison.

Maybe the American filter coffee isn't as strong? You can only get espresso-based coffee here.
I think there are some employees active on this thread...how do you position against, say, Indinero?
The metaphor was broken.

Stage 2: make it easy for everyone to have a railroad by leasing them yours. Lease yours multiple times over, each time for less than it would cost the customer to build a new one.

Stage 3: everyone has a railroad which they rent from you. Collect rent on all railroad activity forever.
Holy shit that guy and I live in different universes.

1000$ a month on drinks, coffee and snacks?
Another talking parrot head.
There is some legal area around creating modified version of licensed copyrighted work. In US there is an explicit right called Adaptation Right and it has a few prior cases, like the one I recall where a person bought a physical painting and cut it into pieces only to reassemble into a mosaic to be resold. The court judged that case as infringement since the purchaser of the physical painting did not get the Adaptation rights. In EU there is a similar concept in the moral rights of the author where the integrity of work is considered an inalienable right.

But the prior cases are not all like that. There are for example cases where a company produced a physical modification to a game console and got sued, and the supreme court siding with the defendant that such use did not modify the original work but rather was interfacing with it. Similar argument was made during the Oracle vs Google API case from 2010.

When it comes to GPL, there has also been quite a bit discussion on the subject when a user combine the kernel with non-free modules. Is it the user that do it, is it the company that released the module, or is it the distribution that make the two easily combine-able? This became a rather heated discussion when Ubunutu made the module available and Debian had to decide on what the best approach was.

I don't think that legal guidance actually exist since there is prior cases pointing in both directions. I would lean onto the question if the copyrighted work in question is being modified or not. Voice recording itself is very distinct from the rest of the work, so I could easily see that it is permissible for a project like this to pull the intact files from one game to an other, but its a very uncertain what the court would actually decide if it ever went to that. We also have to consider fair use rights, as they did with the Oracle vs Google case.
The package contains microcode for old CPUs but it isn't necessarily still updated or recent.

Here for example is what's available for my router's CPU, from the latest package:

# grep model\ name /proc/cpuinfo
model name : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E4500 @ 2.20GHz

# iucode_tool -S -l /lib/firmware/intel-ucode/* | tail -n1
iucode_tool: system has processor(s) with signature 0x000006fd
030/003: sig 0x000006fd, pf_mask 0x01, 2010-10-02, rev 0x00a4, size 4096

Last updated almost eight years ago, so doesn't contain any Spectre/Meltdown fixes.
Are you referring to this?

"GbE is 1250Mbps"

1.25Gbps is the "gross" bit rate for 1000BASE-T Ethernet. This is because it uses 8b/10b encoding on the wire (meaning there is a 25% overhead):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8b/10b_encoding

1000Mbps is essentially the "net" bit rate available to the Ethernet protocol.