skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Inquiry, recognition, and then correction of behavior. If something is ‘wrong’ with you, you should hold on to it for dear life because you just demonstrated one of the hardest things for an adult to do. Personal growth.
I think you are mostly correct here. My father has been a serial entrepreneur, though without any large payouts. He got screwed in an acquisition, and the next enterprise ended in bankruptcy. None were even half as large as our company is now.

I know that until a few years ago, he had basically zero retirement savings -- which is different than having no money to spend. But you are probably correct on all counts.
The idea that a webapp should be a frontend to a RDBMS is itself an artifact of the "time to market is way more important than computational efficiency" culture of the mid-00s.

You can get 1000x speedups by ditching the database and serving out of RAM. Sites like Hacker News, PlentyOfFish, Mailinator and Google (back when the webserver was written by just Craig Silverstein rather than a team of hundreds) serve thousands of queries per second off a single box. In most cases the actual access patterns of apps don't map particularly well to either an RDBMS or a key-value store, so if you're willing to put in the time to develop a custom datastore, there are still large efficiencies available.
I think a machine vision directed spray is the future. I don't fancy collecting the training data though.
What about how Lake Superior is shaped indicates anything weird is going on?
For real study, I find books better than online references, even if many do go out of date quite quickly these days. Something about printed words on paper that helps with focus. Online references are great for quick questions, but when I want to take some time to understand something in depth, I always prefer a book, or if one is not available, I will print the online material for study.
What is the maximum range of this?
I think this is a good idea because it would be great optics for Google to cancel this project.
> Do you trust that the source code for the Signal iOS app

On one hand, we have moxie and a team of people with no evidence against their integrity. On the other hand, a culture that responds to criticism with aggression [1] and then responds to criticism of that by deleting their communications [2].

TL; DR It's reasonable to trust Signal's iOS closed-source app while distrusting Facebook Messenger's also closed-source secret mode app.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/30/technology/facebook-leake...

[2] https://fortune.com/2018/03/31/facebook-employees-are-report...
Besides the secrets rotation how is this different from EC2 Parameter Store? I’m genuinely curious and will move away from parameter store if this provides some benefits.
Right, it's reminiscent of decrying "virtue signaling" as if there is anything bad with doing something because it's virtuous

We shouldn't make fun of people because they "do the right thing". That sounds like something Facebook would do
After Clean Code, also check out The Clean Coder. Less technical, more career/project focused.

There's also Clean Architecture, but I haven't read that one yet.
I wish there was more to this article. I think it's an interesting point, almost of an @dril flavour. But all this article seemed to boil down to was "hey, before anyone else covers this, look how weird the homepage of the shooter is".
Their tech is already used in all kinds of war activities indirectly.
Considering that democracy means people choosing their government, the power would need to be in the hands of the people, not the government, to protect democracy. What will the population do if the government goes rogue and imposes autocracy?

Some might say this is the purpose of the second amendment.
I have a R9 390 and it gets about 30-40fps in Assassin's Creed Origins at 1080p on high, and 40-60fps on medium

It's 3 year old tech whose performance/$ is still around $300 today and it struggles. Gotta turn those settings down with my r9 390 in every modern intensive game!
Here's one from back when Google+ launched and they blocked G+ invite links for about a week.[1] If I recall correctly, there was something similar that happened about a year later where Messenger messages with a G+ profile URL would silently fail to send. I can't remember the details on that though.

[1] https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-facebook-is-blocking-go...
Thanks! I wasn't trying to question its validity, was just curious how bad/blatant it was, how often it happened, what kinds of links it happened to, etc.
Facebook can't seem to behave in a trustworthy manner. Initial findings about the improper sharing happened in 2015. How many years does the "move fast, break things" company need to accurately assess damage, or does it NOT want to accurately assess at all.
"the world is a dangerous place and becoming more so."

Are you basing this statement on a general feeling or on a specific data-based metric?
The military industrial complex greatly benefits from this common sentiment, but by most all quantitative measurements the world continues growing slowly safer, average lifespans increase, etc. While years-long aberrations exist (e.g. civil wars), the overall trend is very clearly antithetical to your statement.
How the Humble Bicycle Can Save Our Cities
> I agree that it is a language worth understanding. However the OO model of Ruby is identical....

I independently arrived at the same conclusion. The main problem with Pharo is the esoteric tooling; life is too short to struggle with tools.

That said, I consider Smalltalk, Objects and Design by Chamond Liu to be one of the best books I ever read on the subject of object oriented programming. Heartily recommended.
I love this idea, but the speed of separation is just a couple of cm per year. Unless the cable had absolutely no temperature expansion, weather changes would probably have a far greater effect on cable length than the imperceptible drift of the endpoints (which suggests another crazy idea interesting in its own right).

One might build this deep underground to minimize temperature changes and provide the hard rock anchor points necessary for the forces involved.
Velodyne?
Not only that, but any linkable information about that shadow profile will need to be scrubbed. So a photo of me and a friend which my friend has uploaded to facebook will need to have my face or other identifying details scrubbed or the photo deleted.
White House email domains are at risk of being used in phishing attacks
C in m/s does fit into max int with room to spare.
What I'm more concerned with is that our Universe might be running on SQL and that dark matter is actually table whitespace.
Code Complexity Is a Design Problem
I'm sorry, but I pretty much entirely disagree.

> Don't tell me that particular in the beginning GPGPU was easier to program for than the Cell.

The alternative was to use bog-standard homogeneous cores.

Yes, the air force bought a compute cluster of PS3s for some specialized calculations. I wouldn't read too much into that. It says little about the suitability of the architecture for more general purpose computing. Supercomputers were always weird.

> It was also the time when Apple switched to Intel CPUs.

I don't believe there was much chance of Apple moving to Cell. Their switch to Intel was because IBM could no longer seriously compete outside of a few niches. There's nothing positive to infer from IBM's unsuccessful pitch to Jobs.

> This decision of Apple and the decisions of researchers to stop tinkering with PS3 clusters and build GPGPU clusters instead were in my opinion the two landslides after which the fate of the Cell was destinied.

You're assigning far more importance to research group purchases than I think is warranted. They don't buy enough to create economies of scale. That's why researchers so frequently adopt consumer products already manufactured at scale, like the Novint Falcon, Microsoft Kinect, and gaming graphics cards.

The Cell was best-in-class for a few specialized use cases, but it was never going to take the world by storm. If we turn to a heterogeneous architecture in the future, it will be begrudgingly, after all simpler alternatives have been exhausted.
To some extent living in a self-reinforcing bubble will cause people to believe their own bullshit. SV is not unique in this, there are plenty of people who are obviously busy with enriching themselves and their buddies while doing this 'to improve the world'. I don't buy it, and I would prefer it if they were honest about it but then again what does it matter, they're certainly not fooling anybody.

The few that really want to improve the world stand out and don't feel the need to sell themselves as improving the world, they don't need to: it's obvious, their actions speak louder than words.
It really surprised me while visiting USA the first time that they weren't available. They are pretty standard in my home country (Argentina) and every house has one.
"I've yet to find a physical book that has proven to be a useful reference in the long run"

Me either, but how else do you signal to other programmers how knowledgeable and well-rounded you are in the field?
I also thought the article's trustworthiness based on how it was written and presented was difficult to ascertain. I had never heard of that publication.
I wish computers still looked like this.
It starts well before Silicon Valley, Engineering Departments get large portions of their revenues through Defense programs.

MIT's Lincoln Laboratory made 27% of their revenue (roughly a billion dollars) in 2016. That's one research center.

http://web.mit.edu/facts/financial.html
People won't realize how bad it is because nothing has tried to contrast the ethics and outcomes of our inter-connected society. It took Black Mirror to make us cynical about the onward march of any non-defense era technology.
the depression industry is a for-profit industry based on bullying

it is quite sick
Last time I was in charge, I had all team members to serve in all roles (marketing, sales, QA/test, docs & L18N, build meister, tech supp, dev, etc), even if it was just job shadowing. I even sent devs to conventions and customer site visits.

Initially, lots of complaints and pushback.

Afterwards, a lot more collaboration, emphasis on global vs local optimization, and dare I say increased empathy.

Highest functioning team I've ever worked on. I still miss it.
This looks like a serious issue that the faa should investigate. Since they look at so many problems and frequently issue repair orders, recalls, etc by certain dates, why would they treat this particular issue so differently?
Everything we know so far about the shooting at YouTube’s headquarters 12
Google does scan for child pornography in Gmail: https://www.pcworld.com/article/2461400/how-google-handles-c....

This is done with PhotoDNA, a system used by many large tech companies for child pornography detection: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PhotoDNA.
This is the same low-cost triangulation approach used in other inexpensive laser rangefinders, like the one on a Neato vacuum: https://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:995686/FULLTEXT0...

It's dramatically different from the $20k+ LIDAR units you'd find on a self-driving car, which generally use time-of-flight.
Does this also explain the extended butte-and-valley terrain in the Southwest?
Yes. I was talking about AI Chips (FPGA and ASICs - NN Processors).
https://github.com/basicmi/Deep-Learning-Processor-List
https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2017/11/at-least-16-companies-....

Cambricon is going big in china so its not just google and apples. They claim to be 6 times faster than GPU.

I am more interested in potential of being able to run video processing, voice models effortlessly on tiny devices. and also to train models offline or locally.

I think there is a good scope of solutions (like vision recognition) that port well across AI chips.
This is exactly why it's such a bad idea to blindly set your prices according to what the competition charges. That competition may just be slowly going out of business, and now you're following them!
1. Digital Design and Computer Architecture: ARM Edition

2. The Evolution of Cooperation: Revised Edition

3. The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self

(in backpack until I finish it). The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil
Interesting, thanks. Also interesting last paragraph:

> Some speculate this could be a Google plot to spur distrust for Facebook while bringing more attention to Google+. I'm not sure the search giant would go that far, but I think it's telling the company's employees chose to post about the issue on their own social network rather than contacting Facebook directly and asking for an explanation.
Police say shooter’s anger over YouTube policies ‘appears to be the motive’
Thanks for posting this - some great memories and great links here. I'll jump on the bandwagon since I don't see any MUSHes mentioned here yet.

MUSH was MUD-based, but built around roleplaying (planned and improvised) and community-driven building. PennMUSH also had a great underlying program language that was (in retrospect, quite amazingly) flexible and powerful. Many MUSHes had very advanced combat, economy, and other systems. I developed a love of programming thanks to the PennMUSH codebase.

My personal favorite was (still is) TF2k5 (Transformers: 2005) - oddly enough, a MUSH based on the 1986 Transformers movie. :) Last I checked it was still going.

I bookmarked an old feature Kieron Gillen did on RPS about MUSHes (and TF2k5)[0] a long time ago - still a very dead-on description in my opinion.

[0] https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2009/07/08/gaming-made-me-3...
Oh, the US didn't meet the USSR in Berlin, stop the westward movement of the Soviet advance, saving dozens of countries from communism?

My bad, I totally forgot that the Cold War never happened and that the soldiers of WW2 didn't form a hard border in Berlin that they were not friendly over.
> What makes CryptoKitties valuable? Scarcity.

What exactly is scarce here? The picture of the Kittie is just an image, right? Can't that be displayed anywhere by anyone?
Learning pains. I bet it won't happen again.
The link is not working for me :(
They also open sourced GameNetworkingSockets and made it independent of steam for allowing games that use it to be ported to other markets.

https://github.com/ValveSoftware/GameNetworkingSockets
Wel I think you can just insert the escape 'character' into the text.
Unless you're a complete bore, if you look at someone hard enough you can make the case that they're a mental invalid. It's a useless thing to talk about, because prior to her shooting anyone yesterday, the only thing that could have warned us were just warning signs. Just as easily as she walked up to that office and shot people, she could have changed her mind and gone about a normal day and done nothing wrong. Does our society now support the idea of precrime?

I sure as hell don't. It bothers me when every time something like this happens, the question is always, "How could we have caught this?" or "how can we make sure she didn't get a gun?" or "how could we have institutionalized her?"

It's much more useful to talk about how to come to terms with the absolute chaos in our world and structure your life around the principle that the world is a fragile and dangerous place. Anyone can drive their car across the centerline. Any two-bit dipshit can learn how to make aluminum powder bombs and terrorize an entire city. Some crazy incel can walk up to your office and fuck your whole life up as you're leaving for lunch.

This will always be the case. I don't understand why people think it's reasonable to suggest that we can ever live in a world where your mortality isn't seriously exposed, or that it would be a world that would be nice to live in. Unless you're completely out of your fucking mind, most people are incapable of truly coming to terms with it and going about their day, willing to die at any time. Everyone else is afraid, and probably always will be.

I think some people cope with the fear by deluding themselves into thinking security is just around the corner, if only we can just fix a few things like gun access and mental invalids. We just need to do a few things just a little bit better, and then it's all going to be great. These people live in a fantasy world.

Others cope with the fear by isolating themselves and their families, avoiding cities and anyone unlike themselves, maintaining a small circle of trust, neanderthal style. This is antithetical to classical liberal values and thus is unappealing for most young and open-minded people.

If you think you reject both of these approaches, I think you're probably just in denial.
this itar business had a huge chilling effect on the formative years of internet protocol design. public key was available at the time. here were alot of loud voices in ietf clamoring for strong foundational security. The US position made it highly impractical to use, and may have cost us an effective and ubiquitous security/identity model.
That's probably an overly specific definition. Their source for the lidar definition is a NOAA webpage [0] with a broader definition that doesn't include specifics about implementation:

> LIDAR, which stands for Light Detection and Ranging, is a remote sensing method that uses light in the form of a pulsed laser to measure ranges (variable distances) to the Earth.

Most lidar does use timing but I'd argue that's a type of implementation instead of a necessary part of the broader category of lidar devices.

[0] https://www.webcitation.org/6H82i1Gfx?url=http://oceanservic...
>Thus, for example, tanks, battleships and bombing planes are inherently tyrannical weapons, while rifles, muskets, long-bows, and hand-grenades are inherently democratic weapons. A complex weapon makes the strong stronger, while a simple weapon — so long as there is no answer to it — gives claws to the weak.

George Orwell, "You and the Atom Bomb", Tribune (19 October 1945)
Even when I open the link in an incognito window, I don't see this pop-up. Do you need to be on the page for X time to see it?
DrGeo is a geometry package for education.

http://www.drgeo.eu/

MOOSE, which is some sort of code analysis tool:

http://www.moosetechnology.org/

I've never been able to make heads or tails of it, but it's kind of an architect-level tool and I'm just a lowly engineer.
Same here. Only book that stays on my desk. Others rotate.
holy crap! I had no idea.
I have literally just been putting together a list of things/topics to brush up on/learn over the next 6-12 months. So this is very helpful
Do you see any reason why it won't eventually do so?
>We should all learn about the conspiracy fallacy

I'm not sure where you're going with this. Conspiracy fallacy is trivially observed by outsiders, and mentally ill people aren't going to suddenly back down from their arguments just because you pointed out their logic is fallacious.
This is clearly photo shopped right?

I mean going up vs going down?

and the high vs medium risk statement is, at best, debatable.

If this is real, can anyone shed light on how they ensure a user has the capital required to purchase options? ie if I purchase 1 calls of GOOG and they expire ITM what does Robin Hood do if I dont' have $10,000 in cash for the exercise?
I repeatedly highlight whereever I'm at to be able to focus on a particular part of the text and keep track of it.

Medium automatically adds a tooltip so I can share whatever I highlighted to Twitter/Facebook.

It's an accessibility issue, where they are privileging hypothetical social sharing of content over readers who actually need to consume the content.
> If a country like the USA can have its elections manipulated, how vulnerable might smaller democracies be?

The CIA could most certainly help you answer that quite quantitatively.
This is a blatant violation of 49 CFR 830.5(a)(2). It's an explicitly listed incident that requires immediate reporting by the pilot. I can't find a definition for immediate, but as a pilot I consider it to mean today, not tomorrow. If it were a clearance, immediate means right now, not even one minute from now and if I can't do it right now, I would right now reply "unable: reason(s)"

And a big part of why I expect this is because ATC collects a shittonne (an SI unit) of data per day, and I don't expect they have a very long retention for that data. The accident and incident reporting requirements are meant to make sure that data is preserved. I have zero expectation of data retention for flight plans, audio tapes, radar tape, beyond 30 days. I would not be suprised if it were 7 days.

Neither pilot reported this incident? And the surviving pilot admits he did not file a required incident report but he's done a recorded public presentation on an incident that has a mandatory incident reporting requirement? And his excuse is intimidation by his employer, which is probably a crime? What?

I don't have time to dig through all of this, so maybe I've missed something, but something does not pass the smell test.
Maybe; it's part of the OpenSmalltalk Initiative, and uses the same VM as Squeak, of which it started as a fork; whether it's a Smalltalk-descended language or a Smalltalk dialect is a matter of exactly where you draw the line.
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How much was properly shared?
It's described in the blog post under "Origin", and the sample profile that we ship with FlameScope (examples/perf.stacks01) and which I used in the video is the first minute of the original problem.

It was intermittent latency that was hard to explain using existing tools.
Anyone have an archive? I blocked them in my hosts file.
You’d probably be interested in the book “How democracies die” by two Harvard political scientists. They walk through the warning signs of a failing democracy and how many others have collapsed - and the answer is actually yes, there are plenty of warning signs that American democracy in particular is in trouble.

Some of the evidence they walk through: the collapse of political norms, political restraint and the rise of win at all costs brinksmanship, the delegitimization and dehumanization of political rivals, attacks against independent institutions and neutral arbiters, and much more.
Yeelight is just a startup marketing under the Xiaomi brand and is promoted by them, it's not technically Xiaomi. Same as with other branches of products (e.g. the vacuum robots).

It also happens that Xiaomi later releases products which actually compete with their partners (in this case yeelight and their bedside lamps). Also the whole Yi Camera brand. First marketed with the help of Xiaomi and now a competitor to the Mijia brand (Xiaomis own brand).

(Citations and more insight needed, that was just from memory).
>> Also there are no standards so every big org is going to build support for their own ASIC interfaces for the framework they manage.

This is true. Google has TF for tpu and Intel Nervana has neon. Each player will likely publish a software library.
Sure. https://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2018/01/daily-...

Is a great place to start.
It almost seems like a scaling thing at this point. If .1% of people will at some point commit a violent crime, at some scale you will have users that are in that .1%. At 1,000 users, it's only one person. At 1m users, you've got a sizeable population.

As an aside, I don't see much discussion surrounding the physical security (or lack of) at Youtube HQ. Not saying this could have been prevented, but most of my employers have had some form of card access system to limit the impact of events such as this.
Pretty awesome - I recall a long time ago a few companies selling software that would do similar (but different) things, so this can help us get closer.