skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looks to me like yet another reason to use sqlite instead of «flat files». E.g postgres seems like a many orders of magnitude increase in complexity.

Possibly related: We’ve been using hdf5 for a lot of data storage at work (raw image data). I often discover corrupt files, even though we (think we) are flushing files etc. I’d love to see some work on reliability there, but it’s hard to know if the article is relevant to those issues.

Also, what happens when you’re on RAID? Even more assumptions out the window I’d imagine?
Whether you're likely to experience ESD problems depends very much on the environment; if the ambient humidity is high enough and you're not wearing rubber soled shoes on a synthetic floor, it can be very low.
So far I don't really know if you can call it inflationary or deflationary because while it's true that the supply keeps increasing the main source of variation for the currency's value is speculation. BTC barely qualifies as a currency today so I don't think we can think in these terms, it's more about what it could end up being if it manages to turn into a proper currency.

>You could then still increase the virtual money supply through fractional reserve banking

You can't do fractional reserve banking on-chain as far as I know so that would mean having your money managed by 3rd party banks who would take ownership of your coins, pool them with other people's coins and manage them for you. So... Back to the start?

Furthermore I don't think it solves the problem of deflation, even with a fractional reserve the bank has no incentive to invest the money if the expected return are less than what it would end up with by not doing anything at all (and therefore not taking any risks either). If you have inflation of, say, 2% then any investment expected to create value or even lose less than 2% is a good one. If you have deflation of 2% then an investment that managed to generate 1% of additional value over your investment actually made you lose money because you'd have been better off not doing anything.

Therefore deflation will make it a lot harder to loan money, fractional reserve or not. Interest rates will be a lot higher to make up for it. The poor will pay the price for being poor, the rich will reap the reward for being rich.

>“investing” is a lot more like hoarding than it is spending…

Depends what you invest into I suppose, if you "invest" in gold bullions then you're right, if you're investing in a startup or loaning money to people buying houses then you're powering the economy.
Yes, the structural feature you’re looking for is the informed, intelligent electorate. There seems to be some issues with that particular subsystem at the moment, we’re working on a patch to fix it ASAP. Make sure to read the release notes of the next version that comes out, there’s sure to be a ton of bug fixes.
Clojure also has Selmer (https://github.com/yogthos/Selmer) which is a Django inspired templating language!
If that's what the experiment was, then it seems less evidence of people being able to taste the difference, and more evidence of how our visual perception might be able to mess with our sense of taste.
No 16:10 (or preferably even taller, like 4:3) screen, no buy.

I really wish there was an alternative for the 16:10 mac I am using now, but there isn't anymore (apart from old ThinkPads, which I have many of[1]).

I tried some Microsoft Surface stuff but they felt very flimsy.

[1] https://lobste.rs/s/txuvvs/lenovo_new_linux_desktop_experien...
I guess nobody said the classical symphony has to be a permanent style, or even the concert.

Despite that (notice that I am not an expert at all), Philip Glass has a number of what he calls symphonies. Not that I like them much but there they are.

Have you listened to John Taverner? They used some of his compositions (quite appropriately, to my taste) in "Children of men".

On the other hand, writing for the screen does not need to be "soft" or "less important". The same Philip glass has some (rather good, to my taste) impressive things in the Qatsi trilogy.

Religious composers are also rather good. Have you listened to Arvo Part? Or John Rutter's Requiem? Or James Macmillan? There is good stuff there.

At the same time, notice that Philip Glass may be a minimalist but his incidental music for "The Secret Agent" or the first piece of "Naqoyqatsi" are impressive works for strings.

Well, just to give you some light.
Why do you presume that once you come off facebook, your data is not used? That is not true, the data gets used and pimped around to the highest bidder. What is true, is that as time passes that data has less value (assuming you actually stopped pumping in the data in fb).
At some point an individual has to decide whether to try to fight the beliefs and behaviors of others, or to exploit that they hold/engage in such for some ends.
I also want to point out that it's pretty facile to assert that if Republicans had disapproved of Obama more strongly, he would have been more strongly disapproved of.

I think even the most hardcore Democrat would agree that the vast majority of media outlets are liberal leaning. So their disapproval has a stronger effect on their opposition simply because they are louder and more people listen to them.
I agree, however check out the gunmetal grey version, its very professional and modern looking. But I agree with the normal black one with this obnoxious lime green lid logo on the front. The razor logo is just horrible.
iOS now informs you when it wants your personal data
> based on the leaked XKeyscore rules we saw.

Link for the lazy: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/31/nsa-top-secret....
https://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2017/05/daily-...

It's a competition rather than research, but is consistent with both some people being better than others and some wines being more distinctive than others.
I run last year’s X1 Carbon and it worked flawlessly with Debian out of the box. Battery life is excellent (3.5W isle with medium brightness) and the only thing that doesn’t work with Linux is the fingerprint scanner. It’s a great device that I would definitely recommend. ThinkPads generally do really well with Linux. And the keyboards are even better than Dell’s ;)
I am typing on an older X1 Carbon, and it truly is a pleasure to work with. The thinness of the chassis helps with ergonomics as you do not have to bend your wrist to place your hands on the keyboard. With the quality keys that ThinkPad is known for, I enjoy typing on this machine as much as I enjoy typing on Cherry/Outemu mechanical keyboards.
> Back before serverless, we called it shared hosting.

You're right, but Windows was different. In Windows/Asp.Net land (which was a good chunk of shared hosting in the early 2000s), Shared Hosting providers were using AppDomains to isolate sites. IIRC, AppDomains were isolated by the .Net runtime rather than more robust process isolation.
I'm so sorry to see that they're still pushing the clamshell design. By that I mean that the lower portion of the laptop is thinner at the front. Extremely unflattering and no less than an attack on their design legacy. Looks like every other laptop out there. Visible here: https://i.imgur.com/1ddfJ1Y.jpg

(Writing this on X220.)
Back in Roman times you'd go to the communal bathroom with your friends, sitting side by side and having a chat while doing your business. They didn't even bother with cubicles back then.
Lack of instance is intentional—otherwise we would’ve made it an instance method. Happy to hear about specific patterns you’re aiming for but since getDerivedStateFromProps executes during the “render phase” (interruptible in async mode) we want people to treat it as pure and discourage them from any side effects and mutations. If you really need some instance variable there then perhaps you could move it into state.
Do you really think all toilets work this way? Like, everyone else in the entire country has that same experience? You bought a shitty (pun intended) product, it has nothing to do with the boogeyman of ‘regultion.’
I think this is the idea behind proof-of-stake. I don't see how it mitigates the fact that while the cryptography may be secure, the humans handling the keys are less so.
The "standard" advice is the 4%-rule -- the idea that you can withdraw an inflation-adjusted 4% of your original portfolio in perpetuity. 5% is aggressive and has failed historically. They're probably looking at $12k/year spending for two people. If you want to move to live on this much, you have to live like a local, and it might not be super pleasant.
I intended to quote this passage, but had phone problems:

"And then, after the service entrances, you have to ride in the service elevators. These are some of the scariest places in the world, if you ask me. New York is full of old ones that are operated by cables. And the high rise types are like being inside wind tunnels--try riding in one with too much weight. We had to lift this 1000 pound marble slab into the elevator of the UN apartment building because it was too long to go straight in. It took about six of us to lift it. Then, while it was leaning against the elevator wall and we were underneath it, the car started to drop erratically because of the weight. We got stuck in there for almost an hour; the whole time was spent thinking we were going to die, telling stupid jokes about disaster movies and trying not to shit in our pants. This was done for this bachelor type who had nothing but Hawaiian shirts in his closet. Family money from aluminum, I think.

The service entrances and elevators make you realize that you are part of the lower class and I guess, in that, the architects have succeeded in some perverse way. I mean, you feel like a service person when you are in them--you know where you are and why you're there. It's very humiliating--as is being treated like shit by the owners and the doormen and everyone else--but it makes a certain amount of sense, architecturally. I just wish I could make every architect who designed a small elevator or a dangerous service entrance come on the truck with us for one day, so I could show them what idiots they are. I have a real distaste for architects now. Look at all the ugly buildings in New York City and remember: they are worse on the inside."
Thanks. It looks like their orbit is around 800 miles compared to the usual 22,000. Expected latency seems to be around 25ms. Would satellites be used for first hop only? I image latency would quickly increase if used for multiple hops.
They probably do know, and practically speaking I would guess that those accounts using an older hash are those which nobody has logged into since they switched to bcrypt. Yeah, we don’t know for certain, but it’s a reasonable assumption.
The Hololens doesn't have such restrictions, and that's the closest device I can think of.
The open-source (GPLv2) MySQL Cluster (distributed in-memory database - not InnoDB, but NDB) got 200m reads/second (and about 60m writes/sec) on commodity servers:
http://mikaelronstrom.blogspot.se/2015/03/200m-reads-per-sec...

My guess is that the benchmark setup would cost about 1m dollars to install (3 racks of commodity servers). The software is free. Naturally, Oracle aren't pushing this, when they charge 10s of millions for Oracle rack :)
Don’t bother posting HuffPo links as references. I hope nobody is taking anything they read there as fact these days. If they are, we are in bigger trouble as a country than I thought. I’d say the politics section of CNN falls in the same category. With regard to the rest of your comment...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16714508
We intentionally made the naming a little bit obtuse. A name like `getStateFromProps` implies this is a common operation because it sounds so “normal”. And this is, in fact, a common misconception with React beginners who try to copy props into state instead of using props directly or lifting state up. So we wanted the naming to reflect that this pattern is not supposed to be the most common.
Better in what way? This is notable because it is the official word of the company, so we can discuss how forthcoming they are.
Udtrace – Unix domain socket tracing
Yep. Previously it seemed like they valued their search's integrity over everything else, but they must be so comfortable with their power now that they're not really worried anymore. It's not easy to prove either, so hard to regulate.
I wish we could forbid it and it might be something the EU may try in the next few years, but it'd likely involve an external audit of the holiest systems - something they would likely fight against hard.

What individual users can do in the mean time is using independent, less corporate services: DuckDuckGo comes to mind.

It is however hard to ignore that Google really has a monopoly on good search (well, decliningly so for me). Maybe we should also start to use Bing to fuel competition.
I mean, it shouldn't. Humanity is perfectly capable of building secure web services without having to keep the way it works a secret. You don't publish your encryption keys with your source code, which is what your security should be depending on.

And what's more, Reddit themselves did not even use that excuse in their official statement for it, even though to me their excuse felt even less logical.

Basically, they don't want to leak the crazy features that they're developing and have such piss-poor source code management that they cannot provide tarballs of clean states of their source code.

I mean, how do they deploy new versions, if they cannot cleanly separate feature development from stable code?

https://www.reddit.com/r/changelog/comments/6xfyfg/an_update...
But, in its first year it wasn't 50000, it was less than 3000. Even if you count full year since release, it looks like it's going to be closer to 20000 than 50000.

Tesla claimed they'd produce as many as 200000 Model 3s in 2017 and 400000 in 2018.

Restricting to "first year model vehicles" is silly and seemingly completely ignores how automobile companies work.
300k is laughable. 2-3M is a more plausible figure if you want to finance two people purely off passive income.
alt + click on notification bar on top right (which looks like some notes, kinda the burger menu) gets it also done (for free). Nice page though.
Might be against terms but it pisses me the fuck off that Superfish[0] incident has been forgotten, by people that should know better. No, Ars Technica, it's not professionals' paradise as long as it's being produced by the same gangsters.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superfish#Lenovo_security_inci...
The mystery, the security and the obscurity are all part of the product.
No, these anecdotes clearly demonstrate that regulation is bad, politicians are evil people who want your clothes to be soapy, free markets solve everything perfectly, and the environment will just take care of itself somehow.
The Rolling Stone writer later wrote on Reddit they would not buy Magic Leap One and would wait for a larger FOV.

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/7lj7sf/i_am_the_journ...
Only if wireless would actually work, instead of fading in half after one wall and 10m distance. Also, imagine how crowded the limited 2.4GHz spectrum will become with all additional networks and connections.
[Edit to clarify what I was saying "not necessarily" to]

I wouldn't necessarily assume that manufacturers will waste that time.

I did a day's worth of policy work with the UK Department for Transport and the regional heads of some manufacturers so know a little bit about how they're thinking about the problem. In the past there's been a progressive reduction in emissions, pushing manufacturers to work fairly hard in the short term to meet the targets they've been set. There've been some noteworthy examples of cheating because it's not easy to balance emissions targets against cost and all the other constraints on manufacturing.

One of the policies they're already discussing is to give manufacturers short-term breathing room in emissions standards so that they stop chasing local maxima and dedicate some proper R&D time to making super-low emissions possible in the medium term.

So yeah, I think manufacturers will try and get away with what they can, but they're not stupid. They know this problem isn't going away (both from an environmental and a regulatory perspective) and solving it will be a competitive advantage.
Mugicha, tea made from roasted barley is thoroughly awesome too. Very easy to finish a liter of cold mugicha unconsciously while I'm in the zone.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barley_tea
It is bait to get you to click by leaving the answer to the implied question out of the title. the question is: [what is] the forgotten drink that caffeinated north america for centuries.
Credit card skimming code
Fuse Panel (Phusion Passenger)
X1 Carbon uses LPDDR3 (as does the MacBook Pro), but the CPUs don’t support more than 16GB of it, so this is kinda Intel’s fault. LPDDR3 uses very little power in standby so both idle power usage and suspend time are improved.

For non-LP RAM (DDR3/DDR4), the power consumption impact of going from 16 to 32 GB is definitely not negligible. It’s an upgrade that makes sense only for few people. Have you looked at the T480/T480s if you need the 32GB? If you have CPU intensive workloads, they may be a better fit anyway.
I didn’t reference them for the editorial or analysis: None of these are sources I generally read but they were among the top that came up when searching. Take a look at the quotes in the pieces. If you dispute them as inaccurate or out of context, please do point them out.

Edit to add: You say birtherism as being fringe and rightly dismissed as nutjobs. My response is to show that it’s not fringe as it was supported by the current president. Part of the disapproval you’re trying to dismiss can be attributed to people frustrated with things like this.

There are legitimate reasons regardless of the hype you’re trying to use to dismiss the high disapproval ratings. There are well-known Republican/conservative voices that are speaking out against Trump as well. We’re also no longer in a period where people are necessarily comparing Trump and Clinton, choosing the lesser of two bad options.

Anyway, I’m out. Have a good $timeOfDay.
Is Blockchain the answer to securing user data on social networks?
Who's actually working on that patch? I thought all that funding was shifted to the Ministry of Truth and Public Enlightenment?
I don't think the box vendors would care. I find your proposal interesting.
My journey with Rust in 2017 – The good, the bad, the weird
The summary sounds interesting, but it's paywalled for me.

The dissenting view, from what I guess is one of the most famous studies:

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-wine-econ...
We could easily build a pyramid now though.
You get the hang of it pretty quickly by just using it for a few days. I don’t even have a mouse on my desk at work (Desktop + ThinkPad external keyboard), my hands never have to leave the keyboard’s home row :)
Came to say the same - unless you lived in, say rural India, there is just no way you can live off the dividends from a $300k investment.
Steve Jobs -MIT Sloan Distinguished Speaker Series
So your claim “experienced respected testers” was false.

That deserves that the upper post of yours should turn gray, imho.

Moreover, I don’t understand why you can’t accept that not everybody has the same sense of smell just like not everybody sees the same: notice people wear glases? Or people color blind? Can’t you accept to be “smell blind” if you are untrained or physically less capable?

The staring point must be that not every person is identical to you in any way.
There's a bug on the site, if you click "files" then scroll down and click one of the links under "Further Information", you get a 404
I totally agree with you. $117,000 is not even significant...
I don't know if they could somehow enforce autocompletion legally, but they probably could've prevented the reason Google is dropping them: With legal control of the name they could have sued people selling piracy boxes. A headache, yes, but it seems that that was exactly why they did change the name (Though it also improves recognizability, imo)
Are you in a wetter area? I mentally associate them with river valleys so naively I wouldn't think they'd be drought tolerant at all.
Wikipedia seems to be confused here about the "unit cost" of Gorgon Stare (listed as $15M) and the "development cost" (also noted as $15M).

Or is Sierra Nevada Corp. really making the full cost in profit as of the second unit sold?!

Anyhow, those two examples are probably in a different price range, no?
Should it be their right? They are becoming so prevalent that perhaps they should be regulated like infrastructure ...
Because there still isn't any LPDDR4 support in the Intel line, these laptops are intended to move around a lot and thus need good standby life, and you can't have 32GB of LPDDR3.
There was never a plan to enable async rendering in React 16. “Fiber” referred to a new internal architecture (which enabled fragments, error boundaries, portals, and now context). It was a prerequisite to exploring async rendering, but it was also important for the above features, and it shipped in React 16.0.

Async rendering indeed needed more research but we’ve been testing it internally for months now, and are getting closer to the point where it’s ready. I disagree with you that replacing a few often misunderstood lifecycle hooks with more concrete alternatives significantly raises the abstraction level.

We did anticipate that some lifecycle methods will be problematic (e.g. https://github.com/facebook/react/issues/7671 was filed over a year ago, or a few months before the first line of Fiber code was written).

We’ve thought about these issues for quite a while. Jordan (creator of React) started thinking about them about four years ago (https://twitter.com/jordwalke/status/500587022890061824).

We needed time to evaluate different possible migration strategies and experiment with them, and we have a good idea now of what they look like. We don’t have all the answers yet but we’re getting there, and are doing that in the open.
Just speculation, but I suspect the American design is better at containing smells. Sure, that's also solvable by just promptly flushing, but I wonder if this is a calculated decision by manufacturers to avoid getting a reputation for "smelly toilets" caused by people sitting on the throne reading the day's paper or whatever.
> I tried some Microsoft Surface stuff but they felt very flimsy.

Even the Book? Flimsy is not a criticism I've ever heard about it.
Fuel taxes are very regressive, as are all other consumption taxes. They hit the poor and underprivileged disproportionately hard.
Oh I never had any illusions of this not being used for surveillance. But that the manufacturer doesn't even try to frame it primarily as "look at the amazing photography you can make with this" is a sad sign of the times for me.
How have you prepared yourself for emergencies?
Yes, I mean "prepping", which doesn't have to entail a bunker full of guns and ammo. It could just mean being ready for small natural disasters, or extended unemployment.

I have about a month's worth of shelf-stable food and water for my family. I have some cash savings on hand. I have basic first aid supplies. I have some relevant outdoor gear like water filters and headlamps. I have blankets and warm clothing such that my family could likely survive winter without heating.
Automotive engineers are telling you that internal combustion engines have been regulated to the point of being air purifiers?

Are they working on hydrogen based engines?
Now that's brilliant. Why do I often feel like one Google doesn't know what the other is doing?
Probably a 'safari' thing.

I have an i3 with unimpressive specs and it runs perfectly smooth on chrome.
Their forum is the fastest one I've ever seen!
Some old models (X201 or X201s iirc, so around 2011) could be configured without a trackpad. A 12-inch notebook with a 7-row keyboard and trackpoint is fantastic!