skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. I read the wikipedia quote the first time you posted it. No need to say the exact same thing 5 times. The chart is clearly restricted to CPUs and ends in 2016. It's 2018 and the top chip on that chart still has the highest transistor count of any CPU on the market. Absolutely zero increase in transistor count for the type of chip that would go on that chart. Every category is seeing the exact same stagnation, Moore's law has been nowhere close to being matched in the past few years. Every chipmaker is struggling with their new nodes and falling way behind schedule on improvements. High-volume chips that normal people buy are really a far more realistic and useful barometer for Moore's law, and again you see the stagnation. Skylake and Kaby Lake are near-identical chips. Coffee Lake is ~25% bigger. There is no doubling of transistor counts going on in anything resembling an 18 month time frame.
Yep, this is one of the big reasons why I love the open source linux world. Something breaks -- and in this case, the initial situation looks quite terrifying. And then a whole bunch of people pile in with information, reproduction, systems they can use for testing, ways to handle this in production, ...
“It seemed like a good idea... at the time”
This system actually is renowned for false positives and generally poor classification with no recourse for fixing its mistakes. A funny and telling related story: http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-42580523
Seeing UV is not relevant here. The beaks _fluorescence_ under UV. They absorb UV and emit visible light. They don't emit UV.
he undeleted it yesterday, about 18 hours ago, for a while
But maybe not in one place.
Even if that's all true, there are still other incentives that aren't going away that can have a tremendous influence (fiduciary obligations to shareholders, for example). Which is just to say that there are some significant structural aspects at play here.
I'm pretty sure you're being sarcastic but I think realistic option would be to implement a weighted voting system based on time spent as a resident of the area the vote is for. Want to move to our state, your vote is worth 1/10 when you arrive and gorws by +1/10 on the next calendar year eventually topping out at 1/1. Want to move towns within the state? You can keep your voting power in state elections but you're gonna restart from 1/10 for local elections.

This would put a stop to hordes of new residents from trashing places because it would give the existing residents time to react before the newcomers dominate local politics.

Experience/time considered in all sorts of contexts. The opinion of someone who's been doing something for years is more meaningful than that of someone who hasn't. Why don't we apply that to political representation. People who have been living somewhere for awhile probably have a better opinion on the future direction of that place than people who haven't.
Now maybe, but not when starting up.
>centralized solutions like patreon work fine

Patreon, like existing solutions, is willing to remove people they don't like. In order to fully disassociate yourself from the whims of a corporation, you need to have a decentralized solution.
I've been pretty happy using Wire lately
What's a password tresor? Did you mean password manager? Wiktionary tells me it means "treasure" in Catalan and Old French.
This is great. I used to work on on both the traffic/network side of YT and the encoding side, and could see the value of this approach handled by distribution nodes at the edge of a network.
Correct, a lot of sites have their static files hosted in s3 buckets.

Also, shameless plug for my tool if you want to go bucket hunting: https://github.com/sa7mon/S3Scanner
A South Park episode comes to mind... http://gph.is/2bjK3lK

I just don't know where you get off telling people they shouldn't have kids. Maybe you're just immature, I don't know, but there's nothing to be gained from it.
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In my experience BTRFS has issues when the disk is allowed to go into low power mode.
Surely they’re allowing ICOs so that their economy starts moving again?
OK, we've added that.
I disagree. If you make something, THE thought is that it fulfills its function correctly. I wouldn't pursue an excellent UX if the inner workings are buggy.
They're more of a bandage than a solution.

Any "true" sleeping pill has to be tapered, so at best you can only take them for a few months at a time before they become ineffective due to tolerance. In my experience, they're also inconsistent and I would still experience a sleepness night about once a week. These are in addition to the usual side effects (oversleeping, daytime grogginess, memory issues, mood issues, etc.) that make long-term use impractical.
This is just a web-app using smtp to ask your mail server if it is willing to accept mail for your address, then leaving before actually passing any mail.
I find writing down with pencil in a notepad these running thoughts help. Then if you get more, add them. I keep a notepad by my bedside table.
Facebook Employees Are Quitting or Switching Departments Over Ethical Concerns
Most car windshields don't have sensors, microprocessors, driver code, etc.
> I'm guessing, if offered the same salaries, Google could find plenty of willing takers to move.

There ought to be companies with data on this - some places allow fully-remote work without adjusting salaries for CoL. So I wonder: how many of their employees still end up living in high-cost cities?

Does anyone know of public data that could sort this out?
There's that word again. In this case it's usually just called "lying".
Typically I am not working on assemblies of more than 10 to 20 parts. You're right though, Inventor and Solidworks do handle them better, but with a lot of complexity that scales better when you are working on assemblies and subassemblies of over 100 parts or more.
I used to work on machinery with more parts, but now I work on sub assemblies with fewer parts. The assembly workbench will improve when people who have a need for it improve it in FreeCAD. I used to do assemblies with CSG over 15 years ago, and it was complicated, but I was very frustrated in the early days of Inventor when you went down a path, and then found yourself painted in a corner by the history or constraint tree. Changing one thing, and watching it all blow up was my first letdown after jumping on the parametric/history modeling bandwagon (I also used SolidWorks and IDEAS). FreeCAD has come a long way, and I use it more often than before. Quick startup times and fast working with a great Python API (I used to program AutoLISP for comparison).
Greatest thing to learn is webpack when you get into front-end development. Don't use a starter kit, the webpack tutorial should be followed - otherwise you don't really know what your build is doing.
Tumbleweed is a rolling edge release. I get wonky desktops and other problems all the time when I update.
After the novelty, it wasn't that great a game.
I used the CD ROM drive attached to a computer at my dad's school, around 1994. I think the computer's hard disk was about 200MB, I remember wondering how they put the data in one place to assemble the CD ROM.

(And yes, back then it was always "see dee rom ".)
Increasing supply shouldn't be that hard. High rise apartment buildings can house thousands of people using a small amount of real-estate. Opposition to them is mostly political. They do make it more difficult to design your city services, but that's not an insurmountable problem either.

The Bay area should look a lot more like Manhattan, not that Manhattan is the gold standard in affordable housing...
How to build a low-tech internet
Yea this has not validated an email for me. Tried a few email clients and nothing said it was valid.
Drag racing is a different set of stress than wheel to wheel circuit racing, but even by the standards of drag racing Model S is fairly weak. It can handle a few launches before it needs to cool down and recharge.
Some thoughts:

The project is in trouble with you or without you. One question is, is the project in more trouble with you, or without you? The contractor could want you there because, even though it's not a good fit, it's still better than nothing, and they need all the resources they can put on it. That happens sometimes in this business - you get thrown into the fire, not because you're great at fighting that kind of fire, but because it's "all hands on deck".

If you're miserable, well, it's just until May... unless the project runs past the deadline. If this turns into a running-two-years-past-deadline-with-everybody-under-pressure-forever nightmare, you probably want out unless the money's good and the environment doesn't get to you. When it starts to get to you, it's time to go.

elmerfud mentioned you getting blamed for the project failing. Is that a realistic possibility? If so, you need to protect yourself. But if you leave now, they'll blame you leaving for them missing their deadline, so it may not be possible to win on the blame front.

You mentioned being let go due to subpar performance. Are you seriously worried about that? If so, you need to have a serious talk with the primary contractor. If they say "Look, we know you're in over your head in this area. But we've got to do the project with the team we have, not with the team we wish we had, and we're hoping you can contribute enough to help", then you're probably OK (unless they're lying backstabbers). If they say "Oh, any trained monkey can do this, a good programmer can program anything", you need to think about protecting yourself.

I realize that I've given "things to think about" rather than actual advice. But I'm not sure what to say as far as concrete advice...
More like

Step 1: Buy a new car

Step 2: Replace engine with something other than OEM

Step 2.33: Car runs fine

Step 2.66: Manufacturer comes to your house and 'fixes' your ECU while you're asleep

Step 3: Complain when car's ECU does not run engine
I prefer "do what you like enough to keep doing it every day, so that you can earn enough income and time to do what you really love after-hours."
"Press your toe here" has to be some of the worst ux ever
Do you have any data on that? In practice I’ve only seen this for semi-recent top40 major label releases.

I’m referring more to the sheer volume of back catalog older/indie music that users have digitized from vinyl. I’ve talked to several indie label managers who gave up years ago trying to monetize/fight youtube with c&d letters.
I admit I might sound a bit bitter in these comments, but mentally I think I'm healthier and stronger than I've ever been. I used to struggle with depression and anxiety when I was younger so I learned mental strategies to pull myself out of unproductive states of mind. I don't feel anxious or frustrated when I can't sleep. I'm too used to it by now to let it bother me anymore.
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If you think that, you haven't used a cellphone lately ... You pay full price (actually, probably more then what it should be) and you don't own it...
Something like this existed for ad tech several years ago, showing which companies were brokering/selling what. It was basically just an infographic with company logos arranged on it, but it was still enlightening.
I'm 37 and absolutely cannot imagine myself working for the man for another 30+ years. I can't seem to last more than 2-3 years at any one job before becoming bored out of my skull. My present position, which I've been at for ~6 months, already has me mired deep in ennui (It was utterly unchallenging from day 1 - but the pay is great).

I want nothing more than to quit and strike out on my own, but financial obligations (kids, mortgage, etc.) are holding me back. My wife doesn't understand why I make a comfortable six-figure salary but am so discontented with my career. Maybe I feel like I'm running out of time?
sounds like something i proposed a while back:

http://blog.codesolvent.com/2015/07/why-not-signed-password-...
It _does_ solve a real problem. Several actually: password reuse, weak passwords, and phishing. If this catches on, it'll pretty much eliminate all leading causes of account compromise on the modern web. That's huge!

However, as you said, it seems like the other piece of the puzzle (the authenticators) isn't fully baked yet. U2F is one existing option, but that's not really suitable as a password replacement all on its own (it's just "what you have"). Hopefully Google, Mozilla, and Microsoft (all of whom contributed to development of this standard) have some ideas for standard cross-browser, cross-platform authenticators that provide the other authentication factors.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16800510
> 1997 I got one CD with about 20-30 games like WarCraft, Doom, Command&Conquer etc.

Good old Walnut Creek CDROM.
You mentioned "third party repairs". Even Louis Rossmann has his reservations about selling to individuals:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaR593TrXf8&t=493s

Plus, for TouchID enabled phones you MUST have a special rig in order to re-pair the sensor, and for FaceID you have to have a special rig to re-calibrate the sensor stack every time you open the device!
>How is this not clear to you?

Because it's objectively a straw man and isn't based on anything except your ideological preconceptions?

>the initial factor they use for putting someone against the wall is economic and not race based.

* Huge citation needed
Agreed. I adore U2F, and even have it running under Safari because I love it that much; but without phone support for it, my cute Yubikey really only helps for desktop usage currently.

As it stands, my pass phrase and fingerprint are the weak links, as phone logins rely on TOTP. One day I’ll be able to tap my phone against my Yubikey along with my pass phrase, and/or my fingerprint. That would be lovely.
> To maintain the performance of DNS, you'd want a connectionless protocol.

What you're looking for is DNSCurve.

The only reason people are interested in DNS over TLS is the garbage middleboxes that intercept and interfere with DNS (and thereby break DNSCurve or anything like it), which typically don't interfere with TLS.

If you could use an arbitrary protocol then it might as well be DNSCurve. If you can't then it has to be TLS. Even DNS over DTLS is people not realizing why TLS was used to begin with.

It seems the thing to do is to default to DNSCurve and fallback to DNS over TLS/HTTPS if that fails.
Graphics cards haven't been relevant to bitcoin in a long time, unless you mean the ripple effect this might have on the price of other cryptos.
> very specific charging protocol designed to prevent metal migration between the pins and the pads on the connector

This is 100% bullshit.
That's a distinction without a difference, because in fact men experience the same biological childbearing window: it takes two.

Unless we start comparing apples to oranges (e.g. women who want to reproduce and abandon the child vs. men who want to reproduce, have custody over, and raise... - or vice versa) the career/family planning difficulties bear substantially equally on both men and women.

If career/family planning poses a greater burden on a sex, it's more likely men who lack the capacity to (apologies for the crudeness) "just go get knocked up." A man who wishes to have and raise a kid requires substantially more investment. He has to get a partner and keep them around for at least 9 months or indefinately. Indeed, it's that historical necessity of being able to "provide for a family" which imposed the burden of excessive career development.

So, in summary, it's not like women can't have kids in college, or at least, it's not harder for them to do so than it is for men.

In this case, women aren't actually shorter than men.
Do expenses stay constant?
Wait and see what happens as a result of SALT deduction reform. Property taxes in the most expensive zip codes just became twice as expensive for many people. California may be less effected due to proposition 13 but places like Texas and New Jersey could be hit hard. I'm guessing we'll start to see the impact (whatever it is) in early 2019 when 2018 tax returns are due.
Low funding of R&D in Afrika is stifling development
It's definitely called "lying". I don't know why people want to dilute a word with perfectly good meaning.
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But it did work before. This would be like your older NVidia graphics card never working again because of the latest Windows 10 update.
Original paper here: https://journals.aps.org/prl/pdf/10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.151...
In terms of design patterns, I wouldn't expect js to be that different from python. JS is a very non-opinionated language and so is the community. Just make sure you understand prototypical inheritance.

"Modern" js is mostly about syntactic patterns. Airbnb has a nice style guide that incorporates most of them
https://github.com/airbnb/javascript
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Harvard and BoA starts council to work on the threats of AI
AlphaGo Zero Is Overrated
I thought that when I first started - if I just could go make X/year, I'd retire really fast and it'd all be great!

it tends not to work out that way for most people, I think. Life gets complicated. Sometimes we are the ones doing the complicating, some of it is just that life gets more complex (promotions, kids, wife, stuff).

Being able to wipe away your tears with $100 bills comes at its cost too. Once you have a bunch, you really start to wonder whether it's worth what you paid to get them.

Viktor Frankl observed in a small book that the only thing we truly control is our attitude to our situation, and that small book became a true classic. Unfortunately, he had to live in a concentration camp for a few years to reach that enlightenment. Zen teaches us that we need to let go of the struggle. Again, few are enlightened. Christ called on us to follow Him and worry not for the future because the cares of today are enough, and He was right, but few of us can manage that either.

Perspective is everything, I always used to say. Perspective (and thus what you ask) is, however, very difficult.
Sounds like it's time to buy.
So the manufacturer is not allowed to make everyone's ECU better because you decided to replace your engine with an older model?
Myst 5 also suffered from the fact that it was a "third season" excised at the last minute from Uru Live (on strange experiment network GameTap).

The rollercoaster that was the Uru project is a fascinating history. Uru: Complete Chronicles collects ~"season one" and "season two" in a lonely single player form, but the best way to experience them is to grab a friend or three and log in to one of the MO:UL servers [1] that are mostly open source at this point and have been run for the last few years entirely through combinations of Cyan Worlds good will and fan dedication.

All of which is to say that the compromises that made Myst 5 feel "poor" compared to Riven I think are much more due to the lost opportunities of changing waters in an amazing, but troubled business model (the world's largest attempt at a graphical massive multiplayer online third person puzzler), and Cyan Worlds doing needs must to survive (spinning content back out into single player adventures to sell at retail, just like they did with "Complete Chronicles", and using a name they knew would sell, Myst 5).

(There's some sadness that the Myst 5's Ages likely will not be reintegrated into Uru, and I can't play Myst 5 without instinctively trying for my Relto book or KI and being sad when those don't work.)

[1] https://mystonline.com/en/
This is a sore point with the new iphones for me. It happens at least once a week with routine hobby-farm work. I'm really looking forward to getting faceid.
If you read the article, you will see that 55% of the power in question was hydro, so your comment seems a little beside the point, since we are not talking about wind+solar, but wind+solar+hydro.

Though obviously it's spring so this isn't a year-round possibility.
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Ask HN: What’s your experience founding and managing a EU business?
According to a subjective review of Doing Business filtered by OECD High Income countries and ordered by Ease of Doing Business Rank [0], the most business-friendly countries would be Denmark, the United Kingdom, Norway, Sweden, Estonia, Finland, Ireland.

(Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland all require nontrivial paid-in minimum capital.)

What are HN experiences with founding and managing a small, limited liability business in a EU country? Despite its favorable ranking, does the UK need special consideration due to the upcoming withdrawal from the EU?

[0] http://www.doingbusiness.org/rankings?region=oecd-high-income
A search system cannot replace a recommender system and vice versa, they are very different use cases with very different needs.

For any type of media, whether it's songs/bands on a music streaming service, video content on youtube, or even complementary goods in an online store, a good recommender system can and will suggest things that I would never have thought of (because I didn't know it existed) and thus could never have found with any search or tagging system.

How do I search for a song that's similar to those that I listened just now (and genre tags don't really work, they're far too broad, subjective and inaccurate) and that's explicitly not one of the songs which I remembered and just heard already?
For the life of me I can't remember the term, but this does exist. Basically genes can be linked together and as one gets selected, it brings along the other, non-related gene (and it's traits).

If I can think of the term and some examples I'll edit. Hopefully a fellow HNer with a better memory can help me out.
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It's actually not a good idea to name the files after the codec, and there's good (technical) reasons for that.

A container contains more than just a single video stream.

They can also contain audio streams and subtitles, with multiple of each, of different types.

What are you going to call a file containing an AV1 video stream, an MPEG2 video stream, a 2-channel MP3 audio stream, a 5.1-channel AC3 audio stream, SubRip (.srt) subtitles for one language, and VobSub (.sub+.idx) for another language?

The above also means that just knowing the video codec is not enough to know whether your device can play it, since your proposition will be missing e.g. audio codec(s).

Trying to play a file with e.g. FLAC audio on a device that does not support it? Worst case it doesn't work at all, best case you get video but no audio.

All that is before you get to the actual video codec, which also complicates matters: For example, H.264 has profiles and levels, and not all devices/decoders support all profiles and levels. This means you also need to know the profile+level of the file, and the maximum supported by the device to tell whether it can play the file.
If you are a content creator on youtube and I reupload your video and place ads on it, I am stealing ad revenue from you.
There's a big difference though. "The video game industry" wasn't really in the business of creating video games that offended cultural norms. It had a subcomponent of that industry that did it, sure, but even that subcomponent would have survived by making different games with regulation.

There is a lot of Silicon Valley right now whose core business is doing the things that are very likely to be regulated out of existence.

So I'd say self-regulation isn't an option at this point, as "self-regulation" is asking Facebook to return to unprofitability with no prospect of profit in the future, the destruction of huge swathes of the ad industry, any number of other companies based around data mining and selling and abusing information asymmetries... there's no way the wolves are going to self-regulate themselves into dogs.
ISPs and traditional media outlets (old media).