skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Open source hardware's still far in the future, and I'm actively worried about open silicon. The RISC-V foundation is making steps in the right direction, but it'll be a long time coming before I have a document that isn't under several layers of NDA telling me how to configure the memory controller on the latest Snapdragon.
This is a great question! I've worked a lot on this topic and its crucial to understanding how quantum computers will be used in the near term.

While I don't have an easy answer for the high level interface, the assembly level interface between quantum and classical computing is also important. If you're interested in that then you should check out this paper where we describe Quil, an instruction set architecture for hybrid quantum/classical computing based on shared memory: https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.03355

This instruction set is the basis for Rigetti Computing's Forest quantum programming environment: https://www.rigetti.com/forest
I don't have time to do that for every plausible new language that comes out. Good analysis of new languages are therefore useful.
MetaMask is not Firefox
The B2B market is huge, but still somewhat smaller than B2C. Look at the top tech companies by market cap today. Each is one that I've used as a consumer:

Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook.

If you think the measure of dollars in top market cap companies isn't representative of companies a tier lower, this is likewise true for the highest value YC companies: Dropbox, AirBnB.

As a founder or an investor, it's important not to forget about B2B, but directionally, thinking B2C is correct.

(This is in contrast to, say, thinking of only game companies if you're a gamer; most tech company values are indeed not in games.)
Seems like Techcrunch may have regurgitated some alarmist articles without any fact-checking. I'm not finding the evidence either.
Science Without Philosophy: The Case of Big Data [pdf]
I would have stopped at ”ICO”.
isn't it just masking the root cause of whatever thats causing the delay in the first place?
I hate speedbumps in my sportscar. Under 20, I often scrape. I have found speeding to 40+ allows my suspension to soak it up rather than upsetting the chassis. They have effectively incentivised my speeding. So, with each "solution", a problem.
Curious what you preferred over Go for the task mentioned.
Yikes, you wouldn't catch me on a bike on most roads in any of the rural areas that I've ever lived in (northeast). Good way to get creamed by a pulp truck - maybe 25% of roads have a paved shoulder, and those that do are typically high-speed (55mph), high-traffic routes.
If we were willing to do that, we could have had self-driving cars decades ago. They were showing off systems with magnetic lane markers on the Discovery Channel when I was a kid.

The exciting thing about self-driving cars this time was that they worked on existing roads, making them financially feasible.
Your analysis accurate as far as it goes but you are kind of missing the point.

Granted, companies like Google and Xerox don't do things out of an altruistic desire to save the world. It's enlightened self-interest, and they do develop business models to make money.

The difference between their model and the more typical patent protection / royalty approach is that in the open case, anyone else can use the research to do whatever they want. Rather than being siloed within a single company, and protected through legal means, the research is free for anyone else to leverage. This results in best of class open solutions rising to the top, and avoids the problem of everyone reinventing the wheel in their own little wheelhouse.

I care less about how much money Google is making, & more about how much access I have to the research they are sponsoring.
The Game of Everything, Part 5: Civilization and War
Somebody should look for this. However, it's very easy to launder this money through an exchange to hide the obvious tracks.
In addition to all the other caveats, it's important to remember that Power9's biggest market target is probably highly transactional, tens-of-thousands-of-users applications (basically, databases of one flavor or another) where how the system handles NUMA, cache coherency and atomics is far more important than how fast it can churn through embarrassingly parallel video encoding tasks.
> Wouldn't it be nice if you could make a living being a 'fry cook?'

There's no law preventing you (or anyone else) from opening (or co-investing in) a food establishment that pays high salaries and provides benefits to fry cooks.
Maybe I'm just crotchety now and/or beyond front-end fatigue but I keep thinking, "you don't need all that!"
Intriguing. I've often speculated about how private sector research compared with public research, especially in the context of the reproducibility crisis since I assumed that a lot of pharma companies knew that some research couldn't be replicated behind closed doors. I wonder what the quality of proprietary / unreleased studies is- do the links you provide take that into account?
Ask HN: What are some of mankinds greatest existential threats?
Assign a probability of how likely you think it will happen over the next 50-100 years.
Because in many places employees can't be terminated without cause. You as a business want employees to be worth than what you pay them. If you hire someone for 50k who sits around and needs direction from a manager to do anything you are taking a huge loss.
Also as an employee if you are harassing female employees (but never too much because you know how to toe the line) you create an environment no one wants to work with and from which you can't be fired.

An employee being fired is not that difficult. You can either not list the experience on your resume or take the hit and lower you expected salary. You'll never be un-hirable just because you were previously fired.
> The WHATWG spec is worse than useless to me as a developer. It's impossible to tell what is usable and what is just Google's wishlist (which is about half of it). The MDN has entirely replaced it for me, since they at least do a good job of documenting reality.

The WHATWG living standard is largely where browser vendors (and other interested parties) work out what the web will be. W3C (with their implementation requirement), and, as you note, MDN serve to describe what the Web is. The latter is more useful to developers, but, as you suggest, MDN is doing a better job of it.

OTOH, to get to a place where things have interoperable implementations, a forum for implementors to collaborate on forward-lookong specifications is necessary, and that’s what WHATWG does well, and W3C does not (which is why WHATWG exists.)
We would not have cared about, say, a past conviction for handling marijuana or anything vehicle related. We might have cared about a recent conviction for fraud. Honesty was paramount for that position, and choosing to lie to us was definitely a bar.
You can theorise all you want, but the world is rife with examples of what I said being true. As always, experiment must trump theory.
> Now Russ Cox is in sole control of the leadership.

What makes you think that? As far as I can see, Rob, Ian, Brad, Andrew and many others are still in the decision loop.
A full list of all the evidence that it's not dead: https://www.bretfisher.com/is-swarm-dead-answered-by-a-docke...
To the employment case...

With the pre-Google system, at least Mark gets his foot in the door and has a chance to impress the prospective employer during the interview process. While his conviction may still impact his employment prospects, at least he has a fighting chance.

With Google in place, Mark never receives a call-back. The employer doesn't bother.

How much does this impact Mark in the real world? I have no idea. But, I'd prefer the non-Google system and avoid the potential of Mark never finding meaningful employment.
Agreed that any special divergence between types of crimes is wrong.

But I can get behind the use of judge discretion.
Russians are but they are only ~80% of the population of Russia.
Some of us have some fatigue about this topic as it has been retrodden literally hundreds of times on here, an army of people stomping their feet and screaming "OMG WHY ARE PEOPLE STILL USING GO!?"

If everyone followed this approach, we would never have ended up with amazing languages like Rust.

This comment reminds me of the top comment in a prior anti-Go spiel (which of course did well on here).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7660924

Is it interesting how little of consequence is written in Rust, or in that example Haskell, and how much is written in Go, C, and even derelict dregs like PHP. The formal perfection of a language does seem to have a great deviance from the likelihood that it serves as a basis for important work.
If it's Uber, probably yeah. Gotta pay the drivers comparable to what they would be making hauling people instead of pizzas.
It is based on a popular Go web framework Echo (https://github.com/labstack/echo)
It's 2018, Is Swarm Dead? Answered by a Docker Captain
The Cook and the Chef – Reasoning from First Principles
>So I'm far less interested in hearing people intellectualise over what they perceive to be good or bad qualities of a particular language (otherwise known as arguing personal opinion as irrefutable fact) and far more interested in seeing what what cool projects people can make.

People can (and have for decades) MCGyvered "cool projects" with all kinds of primitive and shitty languages and tools.

Progress doesn't come from projects, it comes from better tools.

As a caveman, you could build all kinds of heating projects, but you wouldn't get far if your only invention is the fire...
All diminishing returns really depend on your workload. We normally would say that for caches, with no point having enormous caches on desktop and typical x86 server processors, but IBM's mainframe CPUs have tons of L3 and even more tons of L4 caches, as well as dedicated cores (in the form of secondary processors) for offloading all kinds of tasks from the main CPUs, each with its own cache architecture.
Brutalist Design Is the Bad Influence We All Need
If you're new to Hugo's custom output formats, this is a great example of what you can do with it.
https://gohugo.io/templates/output-formats#output-formats
Except you are not the justice system and it's not your call to choose who is bad or who is good.
>Permanent records are hugely damaging for persons livelihood in these cases.

I agree and I'm not debating the harm that can be done. (My comment got many downvotes so I assume they think I believe felons should never be given a 2nd chance.)

No, my comment is specifically about the framework for arguing. I'm saying that phrases such as "forgive" and "pay debt to society" are unconvincing since society has never universally believed that. Consider even the EU country like UK where Google lost this case. If UK truly "forgives" crimes after a felony sentence is served, why do they have a sex offender registry? The parent I responded to is apparently based in Canada. Canadian border officers have denied Americans with prior DUI felony convictions from entering the country. That's another example of not being "forgiven". Also, Canada is another country with a sex offender list.

If we want to debate the "harm" to felons, then let's debate that. Do not use "forgive" in the text of the argument because it just leads to an inconsistency. Jail time is about punishment, not forgiveness.
Cryptocurrencies did manage to have a ridiculous performance over the past few years, I think that's why those obvious scams manage to convince people. The fear of missing out is strong and many people want to exploit that it seems. There are so many obvious scams running in the cryptocurrency world right now that it's hard to keep track and some are more obvious than others. See for instance https://getcryptotab.com/en/ which is an other obvious pyramid scheme.
I did read the article, but it simply said that the person had “continued to mislead the public”. At the very least I’d need to know more to call this fair, as we have no idea what that very broad statement entails. Is there proof that he continued to mislead the public? Has he been convicted of other crimes since then? What standard of proof was used to make this determination? If, for example, he has simply explained his side of the situation that led to his conviction publicly, and some people found that “misleading,” I would say this isn’t fair. If he has been convicted of additional crimes, then I would call it fair. So it depends on the specific circumstances.
Which is supposedly what Marilyn Monroe did in "some like it hot" to get a suitable wiggle in her walk.
> Well, we can't ever know what the world looks like through another species' eyes.

s/species'/person's/
Not sure what the other guy meant, but this article goes over the differences in how Tesla reports gross margin:

https://seekingalpha.com/article/4153659-just-say-no-teslas-...

To summarize:
1. Tesla’s Calculation Ignores The Cost Of Its Service Center Network
2. Tesla Excludes Its R&D From Its Calculation
3. Tesla Allocates Some Supercharger Costs To SG&A
4. Expensing Of Warranty Costs
5. Front-Loading Of Gross Margin

You'd have to read the details on what each means or implies.
The Botch of the Human Body: Our Many Design Glitches
Knocking Down the Big Door – Cinta Infinita
Selling only 2 million in 2018 sounds pretty bad. Google sold 6 million in just 10 weeks.

https://www.theverge.com/2018/1/5/16855982/google-home-sales...
Google sold over 6 million Home speakers since mid-October - The ...
And if you want to not hire ex convicts, you simply ask for his criminal record. Is that not a possibility in the US?

Yes, it's possible to get criminal records in the US. Almost all major employers do so.

But is it right? I have mixed feelings. If the crime might reasonably impact the job, sure. White collar criminal probably shouldn't ever be CFO or CPA or whatever. But, if somebody got in a bar fight in college, is that grounds to never hire them? By policy, many companies will not hire somebody with ANY criminal record, no matter how serious or how old.
After bashing Amazon deals, Trump orders investigation of U.S. Postal Service
Change jobs then. I've been doing this for over four years and if an in office company offered double what I'm getting now I'd still say no. That's how much it's worth it to me.
I don't think you can pin all the crime on "individuals of Caucasian nationality" and Tatars
The FCC does have the authority to revoke licenses based on content, but it's rare for them to do so.

However, this entire situation is ultimately a consequence of revoking the FCC fairness doctrine. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FCC_fairness_doctrine)

For example, a news station did have their license revoked by taking a strong stance against civil rights, and violated the fairness doctrine. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WLBT#Opposition_to_civil_right...)
Would agree. We started with the Echo and replaced with the Google home.
Coupled with Citizens United verdict I agree. Also makes it easier for foreign money to influence our elections. Behind the scenes a foreign government can invest in American companies that buy advertising to change the outcome of an election.
I am just curious, what about the edge cases? What if a person commits acts of domestic violence with their romantic partners, and then gets Google to remove that record. Don't their future partners deserve to know?
What if someone commits legal but shady acts in dealing with people. Why should they have a right to remove it from the public record?
I think that's already the case, isn't US results not affected by this?
Willfully participating in a Ponzi scheme is a crime.
How Lvl5 (YC W17) HD Maps Can Make Self-Driving Cars Safer
It is not so easy to correlate income with contribution in the modern economic system. I am really good at making more datacenters and populating them with servers but it gets kinda nebulous when you try and relate that with direct benefit to society. Yes large corporations can get their compute and storage cheaper than if they had their own servers, but does this actually net benefit humanity? Not sure.

It's easier to realize you make money because its making other people money ( nothing to do with benefit though ).
Is the post office making or losing money delivering Amazon packages?
Vim has vimscript (ugh) with a lua and python gaining popularity so emacs sort of got it right IMO anyways.
Introducing Semantic Experiences with Talk to Books and Semantris
Infrastructure that forces you to drive more is more dangerous. Do we measure "deaths per bullet purchased"?

Shorter drives means fewer deaths, generally speaking.
> You contradict yourself by stating that "criminal history was not an bar to employment" but also that "The nature of the roles in question [...] required us to care about the pasts of the candidates."

I understand why you feel that way. Your heart is in the right place, and you care deeply about those suffering at the hands of a heartless society. Your blossoming of pure compassion is wonderful!

Yet, it's possible that you have not caught me in a contradiction. We would not have cared about, say, a past conviction for handling marijuana or anything vehicle related. We might have cared about a recent conviction for fraud. Honesty was paramount for that position, and choosing to lie to us was definitely a bar.

You're absolutely right that the applicant took a calculated risk and opted to lie. And we took a calculated risk by trusting their initial response. After that, we were much more cautious about waiting for background-check results.

I understand why you believe the question as you phrased it is better. It defers to the candidate's judgment and allows them to offer only the narrow bits of information that they think could be relevant. It maximizes their discretion and minimizes the risk of being discriminated against for a history that's over. It is, however, just possible that some might prefer to allow candidates the opportunity to be forthright, honest, and transparent?
It seems that Telegram starts crowdsale ICO http://crowdsale-telegram.org
Well, Tesla bailed out SolarCity to the detriment of Tesla shareholders and that turned out ok for them (Tesla management) it seems like.
That gives me an idea, actually. Do you have an RSS reader of choice?
You don’t always know why companies discriminate against a potential employee. They don’t just tell you why they refused to hire someone.

So, employers don’t get access to criminal records, and generally, newspapers can’t republish information about people in a way that would harm their life today. Even criminals whose cases were public when they went into jail have a right to a normal life after they’ve finished their sentence – sometimes this is included with a change of name, but ideally, it’d be better if we, as society, would just forgive, or forget.
Usenet was (largely) uncensored, that is a huge difference.
Transports, not service provided gateways.

I'm successfully using Facebook's Messenger and Hangouts from a single XMPP account right now. AFAIK Telegram and WhatsApp should be super easy too, but I don't use them at all.
Interesting discussions from a year ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/javascript/comments/5swe9b/what_is_...

The W3C is very well funded and they don't wanna see the money gone.
Maybe you can use skewer-mode, probably not out of the box.. https://github.com/skeeto/skewer-mode/blob/master/README.md
Imagine if a foreign company bought Sinclair.
Thanks to you, Monty, & all the other countless people who put in the hours, often without compensation.

It really is an interesting story, maybe someone will write about it some day.
Design and Evaluation of a Continuous Consistency Model for Replicated Services [pdf]
I know nothing of Argentina finance, but if I take your sentence a facevalue, my assumption is that they have a high rate of estimated future inflation.

There is no free money in finance.
Assuming from the point of view of a founder, would they want to loan $500k to $1M to a US government-sanctioned project likely to return -100% to 3% over at least 5 years? If I had that money to spare AND was keen on founding a company, I'd more likely literally burn half the money for heating, and use the remaining half for a startup in my own country first.

For a VC looking to immigrate, maybe...

Edit: Or do you mean getting US VCs into said US government-sanctioned projects, so that the US can take EB-5 money and use it on VC funding? That's quite brilliant.
Hey, a step in the right direction! Thank you mods. Now whether or not Michihito (the "AI") actually qualifies as 'artifically intelligent' is an entirely different debate altogether. Presumably voters would actually be electing the two people pushing the effort and writing the code. But I guess you have to use the word AI if you want any votes...
Syaanh – Home Maintenance Application
It's a generic term meaning "How do I get my troops from here to there" either by vehicle or marching, such that they don't get lost and arrive when needed.

This is the classic way with map + compass. GPS just makes it easier.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSNohNPqWlU
It's interesting that you realize they are problematic for discussion, yet continue on to use the acronym "MBTI".
A number of folks involved in WHATWG work bought into the XML vision initially, but reality has a strong text/html bias and we've been able to adjust views as experience has accimulated.

See https://annevankesteren.nl/2011/02/xml-tired

(Personally, the first time I managed to get funding to work on a Web engine was to make Gecko's XHTML-as-XML support better. At the time, I thought it was so important that I sought funding to get it done...)
7 Times Indians Got Inspired by Bollywood Movies to Commit Real Life Crimes
I'm sure once that "real stuff" releases it'll replace the speculation and scamming in the news and the forums.

When's that happening by the way? Surely all these billions of dollars that have been poured in cryptocurrencies and "blockchain technology" in the the past years will soon come to fruition, right? I can only hold my breath for so long...
I live in Iceland perhaps no more than 200m away from where Birna got in the car. My understanding is that people feel more CCTV would have answered the question of what happened to her sooner. People were very shocked that someone could vanish from Laugavegur (if you’ve never visited, downtown Reykjavik doesn’t have a big city vibe) and there were substantial searches conducted through the downtown area. Were it not for some civic minded people coming across crucial evidence in an unlikely spot the red car involved may not have been identified at all. In short a lot of people empathise with the pain of their loved ones vanishing and not knowing why and in this case lack of CCTV almost played a part in that.
Remember Bernard Madoff?

Edit: Ran a Ponzi scheme (promised 12% p.a.) from the 1970s til 2008. $64.8 billion of damage.
That makes more sense to me. When I used Duolinguo it was to get caught up on some grammar and sentence structure, not vocabulary (which I can look up if I need to, and starts coming back quickly anyway as soon as I start speaking French). So I didn't really pay attention to word choices, and didn't internalize them.

(also, as my other comments make clear, the fact that my first French immersion was in Québec probably explains a lot, if you think Duolinguo is more Québecois)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miswak
Mankind? : )
Then test against 2 EPYC 7451s as well for a fairer comparison.
Sorry that's to be blunt crap I work in the - to your eyes socialist Europe. and I know a fair bit about how employment law works in the UK

And its very easy to fire people for cause - what its harder to do is fire some one for spurious reasons i.e. fired so you can give your nephew the job.