skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with #1, although if you're associated with a university, you will most likely have access to it.

I strongly disagree with #2, their news and opinions section is usually top-notch, well written and understandable (e.g. an article about physics is written to be comprehensible for a biologist, who usually has no more knowledge about the matter than any other layman).

#3 might be true, however this even more so for any other, less science-focused, news-outlet, where "sexiness" matters even more to attract a less science minded audience.
All the streamers I watch respond to chat in digest form after finishing a game
I have the feeling weapons design & manufacturing looks the way it looks because the advanced countries aren't really fighting and expecting to fight any serious war with each other. This makes it safe for the contractors to suck excessive amounts of money from the government while delivering very little, and for the whole endeavour to become one big political battlefield.

War was always the thing that connected humanity to physical reality - 2+2 may very well be 10000 on the procurement document, but it'd better equal 4 when you're trying to aim your cannons at the invading forces. With no war, effectiveness (and thus good engineering) is no longer a strong criterion for success of a weapon design.
This thread is about Intel processors, not GPUs
Speaking as someone who left his job in an fonantially solid startup due to the long commute time, I have to say that the tradeoff between keeping a nice job (not great but nice) and having no personal or family life is very dangerous in the medium and long term.
The cert is for knowing whom to serve which ISO ;-)
> In my experience the DNC has been a failure. I get 10+ calls a day. All are obvious scams.

It's kind of expected that calls that are criminal before considering whether there are restrictions on unsolicited commercial calls would not be significantly inhibited by the DNC rule, only legal (but for the rule) telemarketing.
> All that said, State Machines are (currently) the one true abstraction for a given program because that is what a computer is, and every program is, to begin with.

I don't understand these claims. To me, a computer "is" processors that step through memory locations interpreting them as operations and operands - not a state machine. Equally, hardly any program is a state machine.

Is a Haskell program a state machine, or "poorly defined"? I'd suggest other models of computation such as typed lambda calculus provide a much better basis for defining and documenting computer programs.
Massive tangent:

I use FastMail for my work email and it's ok, but I wish these guys would introduce a few new features from time to time. Why in 2018 do I not have the ability to "Snooze" an email and come back to it at a later date? or add notes to an email that don't get sent to the person I'm conversing with? or consolidate emails from multiple conversations into a single conversation? Yeah FastMail your service is a better alternative to Gmail because I don't have to worry about being locked out of my email one day for no apparent reason, but why aren't you innovating? Email with Fastmail is just as tedious and boring as it was 10 years ago.

tl;dr - less politicised blog posts, more making your service not suck, please.
Only as long as you host your own mail. If your mail sits on some third party's cloud servers (like fastmail?) they can certainly make your email disappear.
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On top of this, you can continue to give large multi-million dollar estates down indefinitely to your children without the estates being reassessed for tax purposes. That was an expansion of prop 13 which I definitely think shouldn't exist. So many people I have met here get to live here because of these ridiculous laws that basically keep the 1% the 1%. It props up real estate prices and only benefits wealthy individuals. Even now, you need something like 400k+/yr income to buy a house in quite a few areas. Not realistic for single income! Difficult for dual income if one of them isn't a software engineer at a big tech company.

I've always had to be in these as a tenant. Current one, lady inherited this old 1930's property decades ago and the taxes are less than $6,000/yr for a $1.8mil property. She's making a cool $5k/month off us in profit. I live in the in-law unit and another person rents the house itself. She plans to pass it down to her children so that they can have the rental income too.

Last unit I was in was a 9 unit apartment building. It applies to those too and I think that's bonkers! Guy bought the place back in the 1970's. As you can imagine, it was also about 10-15% of the tax it would be if the property was reassessed. Again, their kids are going to get that for practically free and have tens of thousands of dollars in income with very minimal tax.

I am fiercely against prop 13 but I know it'll never hit the ballot. It would likely send a hell of crushing wave in real estate prices for California. Other states would hate California even more for the mass influx of Californians.
Mark Zuckerberg's Hearing at the Congress
This is incorrect. Laser beams are only "straight" at short range. At long range, laser beam intensity does decrease as 1/r^2. The reason for that is that the diameter of the laser beam increases due to diffraction. If you want to know why, I recommend reading about Gaussian beams and Rayleigh Range.
No. But should we only begin prioritizing the allocation of resources once it has become a problem?

If it is correct that it will become increasingly uneconomical to process crude oil, the supply of virgin plastic will eventually decrease. It makes sense to reduce wasteful usage of that resource before that becomes a problem.
Not sure why you are getting downvoted, as this is the best solution that I have seen so far. Even in the Bay Area, 500k salary is an outlier, and the op can easily afford to hire a part time local developer or full time in a lower cost of living area.

Another similar option would be to look for a co-founder, and 'self-finance' the company initially. I am sure there are some folks out there who would happily take a lower % of equity in exchange for a small salary. And the added advantage is you essentially have unlimited runway.
Rails 5.2.0 Released: Active Storage,Redis Cache Store, HTTP/2 Early Hints, CSP
au contraire, engineers should not be testing their changes. tunnel vision is a real thing - you need to be seriously experienced to be able to sidestep that.
This is also morally suspect. You're putting extra load (taxes if anything) on people while you're not working.

If you think you can repay this cost to society with volunteer work or otherwise, this might work.
Yeah, Bear :)
What's with the cookie notification on that website "if you continue to use this website we assume you are happy with it". Whoever typed that message can fuck off
Also, if the original fails by decision, you can learn from that and live on.
AOL
The answer is the same as my bank is demanding from me.

Deposits. Regular, periodic deposits.
Best buisness ideas come from hollywood- open a bookshop or a boutique - where you get to squander all your wealth in months on stuff of your personal taste.
In your analogy, Southern and Northern would be like using Fortran on a punched card, while high-throughput sequencing is using a modern programming language.
Second worst case would be doing that then... not getting a job. This is always a possibility, the old adage of markets staying irrational longer than you can stay solvent is very true.
HOSTS file? Oh, ${DEITY}!

I thought we killed that idea with fire, like 30 years ago?!?
Or use a local client (e.g. I've been using MS Outlook since 2000) and download the emails (I don't leave them on my email server). I prefer to keep massive .pst files (which I backup with CrashPlan - and soon Carbonite) on my machine that having them sitting anywhere outside.
OCaml has a fast compiler
Everyone can leak the private key. That's not a concern of secure protocol. Of course there should be means to migrate to new key if that happens. Important keys are unlikely to be leaked.
yes, but there are codec restrictions for audio and video.
The XXth century's “American way of life” myth, with individual homes in suburbs and a car to go to work. That just doesn't scale well, espacially with the geography of the Bay Area.

And if you're really looking for a “who”: the car manufacturers who fuelled this myth through advertising.
Prodigious, probably.
Who want's some KFT?
This is also my experience in both elm and (type|Java)script/react/redux apps as well: flat decoupled architectures seem to scale better in terms of development/maintenance in addition to reducing (bad) churn. If styling is properly handled, feature progression is also linear-ish.
Generic typing of Redux modules in Flow
It's a stupid EU law.
https://www.cookielaw.org/the-cookie-law/

If you use a computer in the EU you see it on almost every site.
That depends on the number of qbits you want to simulate. Doing the calculations on classical computers has an exponential slowdown as you need 2^n classical bits to store n qbits. It's pretty unlikely that you will ever be able to simulate a quantum computer with more than a few dozen qbits.
US for US companies, China for Chinese companies. May be some kind of union.
A self-plug, I built a simple RSS reader after Google shut down theirs, which I was using on regular basis. Perhaps someone will find it useful: https://readdu.com
>Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I assume people ask questions because they want information and see nothing condescending about answering those questions.
If there's anyone who can have enough computation power to break key, then that key is weak and its size should be increased.
Let’s hope more EU countries follow the path
For some markets I find it reasonable to assume that high price differentiation is ment to increase the barrier to entry, to keep the market exclusive.
Advanced Kubernetes Objects
You can simply reencode the result of a low bitrate test using high bitrate H.264. It would take more bandwidth of course but the visual result would be more or less the same.
Google HTTP security relies on Google TLS private key. Does it make a brittle design? Keys are supposed to be protected. In this case key could be assembled by a few subkeys with different people holding control over it, so they should come to an agreement before deciphering anything.
Also a webassembly decoder could probably do short clips.
Snapchat, building similar data-sharing API that just got Facebook into trouble
SEC Had an Easy Time Busting a Fintech Company and Its Wizard CEO
Video Is the Preferred Content Type of Online Consumers, Report Sayss
Some take it further and go "I want to really know this newfangled X stuff, gonna teach a class on it."
Never Give Up is also bad advice that gets bandied around a lot due to survivor bias. Sometimes there's a lot of wisdom in giving up on something.
(Author here.) Thanks for the kind words! I'm glad to hear that. I hope this article will do some good by introducing more people to MDPs --- they are incredibly useful.

That is a good point about mentioning backwards induction in Appendix B, because that's exactly what I used! I'll add a note about it.
>Given that this isn't the Jim Crow era, racism works differently. Instead of people being actively, loudly and vociferously racist, we just tend to not notice all the many ways that whiteness helps us out, and then plead innocence when asked why we're not doing more.

There's also the fact that many people are indeed, openly or covertly, racist.

Just because it's not mentioned in "polite company", and surely not in the kind of circle most Bay area programmers frequent, doesn't mean they don't exist.

And this includes government officials, judges, bankers, and so on...
1) Your comment read as diminishing

2) Ok, whatever

3) True that. I'm a vegetarian because of that, but I pretend to be a rational one. Th leather industry is mostly responsible for chemical pollution, though. You don't need to farm animals to make pouches and phone covers. It's not like Apple signed a contract with a cattle farm or something. I would consider that impact negligible, although I'm all for a ban on factory farming any day.

4) Contrarianism is exhausting.
It's obviously in no way a compliant statement, so a mere added layer or trolling. I can appreciate the humor. Cookie notices are an annoyance at best. Once website are obliged to work without cookies, then cookie notices would start to make a difference.
I think it is! A reasonable (as opposed to unreasonable) commute makes your day-to-day life much more pleasant.
FA is by far the most famous embodiment of the concept.

> You're being disingenuous here or at the very least you put way too much faith in the average American's knowledge of basic civics / their own government.

You don't need to known details of government functioning to value free speech. Valuing free speech is one of those natural values most people - at least in American culture - embrace by default, without much need of educating them on the details.

> [edit] Clearly the original parent does understand the First Amendment.

That very well may be (though OP recognized their error in an edit), but the comment I responded to talked about "most Americans", not just one online commenter.
Leaving rideshare scooters in a commercial district parking space is a fail. Cars pay and have time limits.

Judging by your username and a serious hatred for cars, I'm guessing you might be letting bias cloud your judgement here...
Diffraction affects laser beams just like all other radiation. You can't just focus a laser beam on a pea over a distance of 1000km. (well, theoretically you could, but you need a 20m parabolic mirror to focus it)
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Well, I'd say finding out who decided that the contract should go to the same company is a good start of the corruption investigation.
That may not help.

The assumption is that Successful Business is successful because of the product it sells, and therefore if you sell the same product you will be successful too.

Someone who doesn’t understand why this isn’t guaranteed or what the other relevant variables are probably shouldn’t be giving business advice.
it called "De perfekte piger/The perfect girls" its available here, but its in danish https://www.dr.dk/tv/se/de-perfekte-piger/-/de-perfekte-pige... .
100kph is ~62mph IIRC. I don't think the average person could pull that off on any kind of bicycle.
Schmidhuber doesn't seem to be a physicist, so I'll go with the majority of physicists on this one. Currently there is no reason to assume that quantum computers are impossible. There might be engineering challenges that we can't overcome, but quantum mechanics is a decently well established field and unless its assumptions are fundamentally wrong, quantum computers should work.
Yes, exactly. After all, as Jack Weinberg said, never trust anyone below 30.
Similar issue on my side :( I had to google your github - repo with the site.
What would be the point of this "loophole"? This is pittance money for All the big companies, Apple, MSFT, Google etc. I don't think most consumers even care about whatever marketing buzz this might generate.

This is a net positive whichever way you spin it. Pollution doesn't understand state or country boundaries.
https://twitter.com/wearedissident/status/982257661935693824
this is why openbsd foundation is based in canada.
The folks I know who are thinking of moving there are either not in tech or they're looking to retire and start a second career.
> The fundamental issue is that the average person in the United States and Austrailia simply don't really care for their online privacy.

It's in part because it's very hard to grasp - so I don't blame them.

But this is why the burden can't be on the end users. The burden has to be on those that create the tools and set the defaults. Apple's decision to include content blocking on iOS was a good step in the right direction. Having isolation between tabs in firefox is another.

The next logical step is enabling everything by default. Having what amounts to a full "don't track me" setup (The equivalent to a full uBlock origin+ghostery+tab isolation whatever else an "aware" person might do) being the default in any new browser and smartphone would go a long way.

Whatever "nuclear options" exist for those that have them, such as browser vendors, need to be used, quickly. I have very little worries for "breaking the web" or putting a sizable fraction of struggling web sites out of business because nearly every visitor suddenly sees no ads. If your business model was creating content and financing it via showing ad-network ads with third party scripts and cookies for targeting - your business model was never viable and you should find another business model or just shut down.

I'd even go so far as to suggest that mozilla and others should start actively and specifically targeting dark patterns and problematic things on specific web sites. This would be enormously controversial - but just like my browser will show a huge red warning if there is something wrong with a certificate, it should do the same thing to the average user if they click "what's your mexican wrestler name?" on facebook.
Smartphone Addiction: Main Symptoms and Ways of Treatment
IIRC, for 8.1 the controls were separate, but ringer volume was available on phone or main screen, and media volume inside apps/games.
I was thinking this as well, but then I continued to read the blog post and found the following:

> Publicly exposed data contains a large amount of the employee data such as Payroll files (707,960) and Tax Return files (64,048). More than 2 Million of files that contain personal health information like MRIs based in Italy exposed.

> The exposed data includes the Source Code, Patient List accounted about 95,434 and 4,548 respectively. Exposed data is a goldmine for attackers they can use the publicly available data to launch cyber attacks. the exposed information cut’s off their reconnaissance.

> Shockingly some highly sensitive information’s such as security audit reports, network infrastructure details and penetration testing reports are stored online publicly.

But it's not clear really how much percentage of 1.5B files was actually sensitive.
Ouroboros would be a good icon for this project.
I am mostly shocked that the low quality of calls even exist. Who are the people actually falling for a noisy VoIP call asking for personal information? I've been trolling those calls lately when I have a few minutes just so they can't call someone else.
Philosophically speaking, the more and more that products are sold with one purpose on a closed platform, the more and more of these products that are going to end up in the junk yards when they can't be extended or repurposed beyond what the manufacturer wanted (or ever thought) possible.

> They might, however, buy a pre-built, pre-installed appliance that just needs to be plugged in and have a web browser pointed at it to get started.

Don't forget about setting up the freaking wi-fi network. Apple, Google make it reasonably seamless to setup their devices from an app, say. Most third-party devices aren't as easy to setup. I have to manually enter my wi-fi password in my Tivo, eg.
Might it be caused by the use of slow matrix operation algorithms rather than the size?
Not necessarily. Prop 13 also gutted California's funding for schools. They lost 1/3 of their funding overnight when Prop 13 passed. One would hope that repealing Prop 13 would also undo at least some of that underfunding, considering California is 41st among states in CoL-adjusted per-pupil spending.
3D CAD kernel in golang using signed distance functions
But mild unhappiness also predicts behavioral variability.
Indeed. I'd expect this to top of at about 64 qbits with smart maths. (Mostly due to pointer limitations.) You could try to extend addressing but it'll be even slower...
No, it's not jailed for facebook post, it's jailed for a facebook post calling to an immediate specific violent action against a specific person. If a mafia boss tells his capo "let's whack that mofo", then it'd be very disingenuous to claim the mafia boss was prosecuted for speech, not for organizing a murder. Obviously, free speech protections do not apply when the speech is a part of a crime - either one that happened or one that is about to happen. Saying "let's burn this specific guy's house down" is well within the limits that should get police's attention.

Even then, in this case, Peralta was not prosecuted. Which is probably OK if he was just extremely stupid and not actually intended to proceed with burning the house down. But specific violent threat is not the same as just speech, and one should never present it as such.
-> only interesting thing about Aki these days is the maid cafes. Everything else is tourist cosplay junk.

Sorry but that is not a good summary. Only a small part of akihabara is built for tourist. And how is maid cafe the only interesting thing?
I feel like your whole perspective is skewed towards you, as a newcomer, feeling entitled to everything here.

Your industry (tech) is causing values to skyrocket. Which is fine, but not everyone in a single area is going to work in one industry. If a bunch of wealthy people want to live in one place (this happens in CA a lot) why should your taxes go up punitively? That's why prop 13 was put in place. It really puts a value on homeownership--investment in an area, and investment in the state.

As a renter, you have far less invested in CA than a property owner. A property owner who has been in place since the 70s has paid decades of taxes (all: income, property, etc), utility bills, etc, that have made the state the way it is--for all its problems, CA has some of the best public higher education in the world. This system has helped silicon valley out tremendously as a viable competitor to the ivy league system for an extremely talented workforce.

You have probably been here for some time, but not decades. Why should you get to tell these people they don't deserve what they've earned? If the tech economy crashed tomorrow, would you still be here? I doubt it.

I got in-state UC tuition but my parents paid decades of income taxes. I own one of those pieces of real estate you probably look askance at.

I understand that housing is sorta a pain for you, but for many people these pieces of real estate represent a lot of value: sentimental, and a sizable chunk of their net worth. If you're going to advocate for redistribution, there are MUCH better targets for your ire in this day and age. Otherwise, pay up, and then in 20 years run your mouth on some out-of-state carpetbagger or teenager who thinks they're entitled to something you put 30 years of mortgage payments towards.
I understand that, and it's a risk I'm willing to take. I'd rather find out that a person is an ass before I give them my money than after. There's always another store, another car dealer, another hotel, another vehicle rental chain. It's likely that the after-sales service will match, or be worse than, the pre-sales service. I'd rather not give them my money at all than have to fight for recompense after the fact.
The article omits the fact that as a consequence Portugal has one of the highest energy prices in europe and that fact played a significant role in the portuguese economic crisis that started back in 2008 and culminated in the 2011 banktuptcy and subsequent bailout program.
Sad to see this go. For those in the Bay looking for surplus electronics there's still:

* http://anchor-electronics.com

* http://www.excesssolutions.com

* http://www.halted.com
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You are getting down-voted because you are shifting the burden of proof.