skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Baremetrics for sure. Really effective — the dashboard gives you all the important data quickly and then you can easily drill down. I use their product several times a day and it’s the best interface of all of the many services I use.
Are you guys hiring? (although I haven't used ember since..before 1.0)
Composition notebooks and pencils. Paper and pencil helps me focus better.
Should work for very complex advertising campaigns. The results would be valuable to those who devise advertising campaigns and to executive decision makers.
It's important to make sure that what these algorithms actually produce is surprising to subject matter experts. I can recall, but can not find at the moment, a tumblr post where the blogger was surprised that a computer program which optimized a physical structure to minimize material while maximizing strength ended up looking organic.

This didn't surprise me at all. Organic structures evolved over millions or billions of years and probably are nearly optimal at accomplishing a particular task. I'd be surprised if the optimization software didn't produce something that looked organic.

It's not like the optimization software was better than actual organic structures either, which are neither isotropic (in organic structures the strength varies depending on the direction) or homogeneous (in organic structures the strength varies depending on the location) as the software had assumed.
Are you able to fully configure webpack? Do you know how to animate with CSS? Do you know Greensock? Three.js? Babel? The differences between ES5,6,7?
Co.js? ES generators? Webassembly?

Being able to hack out a little Js and css to make an Enterprise dashboard imo does not a front end or full stack developer make.

I have one of those 'college degree' thingys and I'll tell you something....imo CORRECT front end development is way more challenging than back end development.
whataboutism
It's difficult, because a network of suppliers and processors can go very deep and involve a great number of branches: a batch (or "lot") of red peppers from a farm could be split up and shipped, via various shippers, to a variety of manufacturers for quite different purposes. Getting everyone coordinated to use a central database is... difficult. Instead big market movers (think Walmart, Kroger, et al.) can say: "look, if you want to do business with us, then you and all your suppliers and their processors and suppliers in turn, and so on, need to transact lot and batch numbers and related info into this distributed ledger thingy, which we will all be a part of running [think industry-specific Hyperledger (or similar) application, not the Bitcoin or Ethereum blockhains per se]. The data transacted has to conform to certain ISO standards. If the data's not there, all the way back to origin, we'll stop doing business with you. You have 5 years to get ready. Get started."
And yet, understanding all the politics involved, I would much rather have the government using AWS because I want them to have functioning infrastructure and services which will only benefit the public.
How does Fossil's underlying storage / change tracking mechanism diff from that of Git, Mercurial, or Vault?
Yeah I worked in PDIT on some of the cloud stuff and it was a sad joke. Get out, you won’t regret it.
"Dinosaurs on a Spaceship" was mildly disappointing given the amazing ridiculousness of the title, but "The Hungry Earth" / "Cold Blood" is a top-notch two-part episode. It feels so authentically human in both the highs and the lows.
> That's because having these hot microphones networked in your house is such a creep concept, and feels extremely far from useful.

No. I use "Hey google, turn off everything in the garage." all the time. It's remarkably useful if I'm in bed, and don't want to get up to make sure everything is turned off.

Really the Apple speaker reminds me of the Nexus Q. It doesn't do a lot, and it's pretty damn expensive. And if you want stereo, you need two. Google Home Max is similar, and is one of the reasons I haven't bought one.

Edited to add:

I have the audio chromecast plugged into my stereo, and that works really good. I can change out my speakers if I want, add an amplifier, etc.
> In the wake of Facebook’s privacy debacle, Myspace Tom has emerged as an unlikely hero.

It's a joke.
The article and the article it is written in response to are explicitly about notation, not semantics.
> Outside of the code, the Ember team's communication skills are top notch. I feel like every time I tell my team that "XYZ is coming down the pipe", there's a clear plan of attack and any impact is minimal. In the last 3 years, I've never had to tell my boss that development will be paused to focus on a refactor/upgrade/maintenance.

Really? We had the exact opposite experience with major upcoming refactors that were poorly handled. Deprecating controllers, adding routable controllers, multiple changes in the rendering systems (handlebars, htmlbars, glimmer), and lots of confusion around coordinating release of core, data, and cli.

Enjoyed most things outside of that though. Learning curve early on was rough, but now it seems a lot better and looks they are rallying back up for good improvements after the 3.0 release.
He was still doing weekends when I discovered Coast to Coast AM. As others have said, his ability to hold two opposing points of view in mind (i. this guy I'm talking to is crazy, ii. let's get weird) was wonderful. I enjoyed the way he played his interviews. On the west coast, it's a 10 pm show. To this day, I still like to put Coast to Coast AM on 1-hour sleep timer when I go to bed. Fun to hear all the crazy perspectives. Art Bell, you lived well.
The band Tool used part of this clip on its 2008 album 10,000 Days, IIRC right before or after "Faaip De Oiad" ... it was intense.
Please no, I do not want to use Oracle anything. We are finally starting to embrace open source in this sector.
They use a SQLite database as their underlying storage. (It is written by the author of SQLite.)
In a hypothetical perfectly efficient planned economy, you’d assume it would look just like a perfectly efficient free market. However the objectives of a planned economy aren’t market efficiency, the objectives are at least superficially supposed to be whatever the planners deem to be socially equitable wealth distribution. This requires overcoming market forces, by dictating supply with a central plan, and ignoring demand by arbitrarily distributing resources.

This doesn’t scale up from a household scale to an economy-wide scale for numerous reasons, but probably the most significant ones are:

1. The non-existence or competition means that inefficient enterprises cannot fail.

2. The mind-boggling complexity of centrally planning the supply chain of an entire economy unavoidably introduce massive inefficiencies.

If a household wants more bread, they can just allocate more resources to buying bread. But if I want to plan for an economy to produce more bread, I need to individually allocate more resources to every single element of the bread supply chain. There’s no way a central planner could be expected to do that with the same efficiency as market forces could.
There have been no practical demonstrations of colliding the MD5 of an arbitrary file (ie. pre-image attack), only situations where two files are created specifically with the intended purpose of creating a collision. This is precisely what the post you replied to said but you seem to have not understood that there's a distinction.

Yes, it is possible that the DragonFly developers could collude to create two ISOs with the same MD5, one good and one malicious. No, it is not possible that random, evil ne'erdowells could replace the ISO with one with the same MD5, unless the DragonFly developers have conspired with them to make that possible.

If you don't trust the DragonFly developers not to collide the MD5s, you probably shouldn't trust them with the code running in your kernel anyway.
Rich Hickey's Greatest Hits: https://changelog.com/posts/rich-hickeys-greatest-hits
From a high enough vantage point, I'm willing to bet there's a gaping hole that economists can clearly discern, that a calculable quantity of money just "falls into" somehow, and that there's a corresponding class of citizens that are curiously plump, and their feet don't seem to touch the ground, even though they aren't particularly well known, and don't seem to have lucrative careers.

If you took all the public data, and tried to trace all the economic output, as it fell into the pockets of individuals, and tried to follow the spending patterns of individuals, tracing the return path acting as inputs to fund all the legal businesses out there, you probably can quickly notice a gap too large to chalk up to inefficient friction and people hiding money under their mattresses, and it probably looks more like a willful diverting of funds to parts unknown.

By induction and intuition you might hazard a guess about the story behind such phenomena.
Almost all states are using outsourced DMV in a can solutions that really suck.
It's possible (likely, even) that experience of using GitHub is the exact reason why someone has decided not to settle there. Keep in mind that the Linux kernel—the very project that Git owes its existence to—is itself developed by a group that has eschewed with GitHub almost entirely for collaboration.

That, and the fact that GitHub is a closed source backend under control of a corporation that's accountable to no one.
On the contrary, I don't think there is much evidence at all that the Mark Zuckerberg's of the world have so much innate talent that circumstances don't matter. The more we learn about what explains individual success, it's clear that there are lots of factors pushing a given person towards being successful, and then a lot of other factors pushing that person toward being unsuccessful. There is no "best and brightest," there is a murky combination of talent, privilege, environment, education and luck.

It's impossible to know if Mark Zuckerberg would be a billionaire if not for Harvard, for both easy reasons (maybe if he went to Yale, he would have slipped on a banana peel and then gotten hit by a bus) and deeper ones (how much did luck play a role in Zuckerberg's success, and did the network and prestige of Harvard help him capitalize on his good luck?)

Zuckerberg had many more factors in his favor than just Harvard, that's for sure. Anyone who tries to explain his success by saying "oh, that's because he went to Harvard," is wrong. But it's also impossible and silly to claim that we can know that he is just so talented and intelligent that all contingency removed he still would have become a billionaire.

This applies to the broader argument about Y Combinator. YC has a competitive advantage in that it attracts companies that have many positive factors behind them to apply. But that doesn't mitigate the possibility that YC itself is another positive factor, or that the only benefit to participating in YC is knowledge. From the outside, it seems like the applied knowledge expressed as case-specific advice and mentorship would be hard to "democratize," and that the intense amount of mutual support (start ups patronizing each other and becoming an instant, deep professional network for each other) are also not really expressible as knowledge.

Access is an incredibly powerful resource that YC can provide its companies, and one that has absolutely no correlation to being "the best or the brightest." The reason there are so many successful white male founders is not because they are the "best and the brightest," but rather because they are culturally and ethnically connected to networks that provide them with access to business opportunities and conversations and platforms and education that aren't nearly as available to non-white non-men yet. There are countless "best and brightest" women of color who do not have all of the favorable circumstantial factors that made success easier for Mark Zuckerberg (and obviously made it easier for him to get into Harvard in the first place in various ways) and yet are equally brilliant and talented.
Horrible on mobile for their marketing site. Feels like a spammy “one weird trick” landing page. All sorts of problems with buttons, text alignment and more. Terrible color scheme. Just no.
The page provides several alternatives, ending with "the Chontal Maya people refer to themselves as the Yokot'anob or the Yokot'an, meaning "the speakers of Yoko ochoco." Thus Yucatan most likely derives from Yokot'an."

While this is marked as "citation needed", given the information provided, it seems illogical to prefer one of the other explanations just because it sounds more amusing.

Also see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chontal_Maya which seems to at least confirm the term "Yokot'an" exists.

It is probably specious reasoning to assume that the name originated at the moment the Spanish first met the indigenous people, but it seems to be such a good story that most don't question it, even when they are debating the different possibilities.
The legacy IBM mainframe OS that powers the base layer for most airlines, and also things like credit card transactions.

It's completely different from the most prevalent mainframe OS (zOs/MVS).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transaction_Processing_Facil...

Think of it like nosql. High transaction rates, and high contention. Great when used for it's strengths, terrible otherwise. Close to bare metal, and hard to match for transactions/second with decades newer tech. The record sizes are closely matched to hardware I/O offload cache sizes. It's an I/O beast.

Imagine an OS built specifically to ignore things like private memory space in favor of specific dedicated drivers with intimate knowledge of specific disk and cache controllers to read and write as fast as possible, skipping the CPU whenever possible. And hardware
-aware record locking semantics.
> I've never heard a software developer say this about coding.

This is sarcasm, right? We say this all the time about legacy spaghetti code or excessively clever magic our languages or (closest to von Neumann's statement, perhaps) the mountain of APIs and libraries and OS we use..
Amazon is sometimes less than perfect, but they operate in hypercompetitive markets where customers can easily switch away. This builds an entirely different kind of company than an Oracle or a big defense contractor. Fundamentally CIA and DOD cloud requirements aren't that different from large existing AWS workloads so it's nearly the existing COTS product. (There's a bit of security on top, some of which is better in commercial AWS than in most locked-down S/TS environments already, some of which can be retrofitted onto AWS easily, and much of which is just policy, but the rest of the product is basically already fine.)

I would trust an arbitrary product which competes on the marketplace and is sold into government on a COTS basis more than virtually anything arising out of government/vendor insanity. (I'd probably go with a purely-Government solution if it were a really specialized thing and of small enough scale, developed organically by the end user org, more than a traditional procurement thing, but COTS generally is the winner whenever a COTS option exists.)
They can't afford the technical talent on the GS scales and are unable grow it internally.
Sure. But if you run an ad targeting certain demographics, and then get click-throughs on those ads can you then make the connection between users/demographics?

I also do find it interesting that app developers get access to more information than the paying customers themselves.
The problem with that line of thinking is addresses in the article. The oldest large scale area of "ancient" crust on land is a mere 1.8 million years old (the Negev Desert). The entire surface of the earth is regenerated on a scale of tens of millions of years, any depletion of surface deposits which occured ~100 million years ago would have long since been hidden by the replenishment of new crust provided by plate tectonics.
I find the show "Silicon Valley" to be very accurate! Take a look at the bro developers for example!
Perfectly simple. Easier to just avoid FBA (or Amazon).
I'm calling it now. Oracle will succeed and be the primary benefactor of these efforts. We've already seen that they're in bed with Trump: https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-silicon-valley-giant-bankr.... The only things Trump understands are money and favors.
Agreed, but experience has shown some kind of mental block in developers coming from other frameworks. ymmv
> because the mania doesn't seem like a problem.

To be clear, the feeling of being on top of the world and superhuman is hypomania, and not full blown mania (hypo indicating "less than" mania), which from my experience, is far and away worse than the depressive episodes. Don't get me wrong, depression is bad and you can literally end up dead from it. Not going to minimize that.

But the mania I've experienced? Watch out. Buying things you don't need, quitting jobs you need desperately, ending relationships on a whim, engaging in random sex, random drug use, not sleeping ever.

And if that weren't enough then there's the paranoia and delusions. The government is out to get me kind of stuff. The "I'm the second coming of God" kind of delusions. The CIA installed microchips in my cats and they're using them to spy on me kind of paranoia. That plus the sensitivity to light and sounds. I had to take the batteries out of my smoke detectors because the tiny LED felt like a spot light at night, watching me like the Eye of Sauron.

And if I haven't burned every bridge I've ever made, earned the scorn of everyone whose ever loved me, and spent every cent I've ever earned, I can consider myself lucky for not ending up in jail or an institution. The hospital is a whole different level of fun when you're susceptible to the idea that there's a conspiracy against you.

So yeah, while depression is bad and hypo-mania is fun sometimes, full blown mania isn't something I would wish on my worst enemy. It's the devil incarnate as far as I'm concerned.
There is way more that goes in to operating a large scale computing infrastructure efficiently than the cost of hardware. Like way, way more. If anyone could replicate it at the right scale then every large organization would be competing with Amazon for the cloud infrastructure market.
Ask HN: [Gaming/Hardware] Need help to align gamma in fullscreen and borderless
Windows games run either "real fullscreen" (no compositing), or as a borderless window. Real fullscreen typically performs a tad better, but adds a bit of mode switch flickering at startup. To me, both are fine, I don't care.

What I do care about is that, on my machine, all games running "real fullscreen" appear significantly brighter than games running windowed/borderless, causing constant display brightness/gamma fiddling. I'd like to know if it is possible to align both modes.

- Say I'm happy with my brightness settings in the Windows desktop (thus, in the Windows native mode used by games running windowed/borderless). "Happy" means that, on a test image: black looks black, and whites aren't compressed. My display is at brightness=50 and gamma=2.2

- Then when I run a game running in "real fullscreen" mode, blacks are invariably gray-ish, and I have to set my display brightness to 47 (instead of 50 in borderless) for black to appear black.

Googling [1] yields many similar complaints of gamers reporting "higher gamma in fullscreen", but I couldn't find anything satisfying:

a. Many answers simply suggest tweaking game settings :-/ , which sucks...

b. Especially given this gap is constant: ALL fullscreen apps are too bright, and I always have to do the same adjustment for them (50 -> 47).

c. Finally, "just run all games in the same mode" is not a satisfying answer, as many games do not offer a fullscreen / borderless choice.

So my questions are: why does this gap exist, and how can I calibrate/configure my display to have both modes (approximately!) aligned, so that I no longer need per-game tweaks or per-launch adjustments?

Finally, am I right to talk about "gamma", or is it "brightness"?!

Thanks :)

OS: Windows 10. GPU: NVIDIA GTX 960 using the latest drivers (currently 391.35) with all settings to default. Feel free to ask for more debug information.

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=gamma%20fullscreen%20windowed
Can you please not rant like this on Hacker News? No matter how right you are, it damages the container here. We're trying for thoughtful conversation on this site.

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

By the way, Hacker News doesn't sell users' data. Not that we're a big "player in the modern web" or anything, but still.
Facebook has also Friends lists which pretty much the same functionality if Im not mistaken.
I used to experience this as well, and I always considered myself cyclothymic[0] (not diagnosed).

I feel much more even nowadays and I attribute it to a cumulative effect from plant medicine ceremonies over the last 3 years (five combination ayahuasca/san pedro, one 5-MeO-DMT), discovering an anchoring purpose for my life, and reducing my marijuana consumption (haven't smoked/edibled since New Years, longest in ~17 years).

I feel a general resistance to dwelling on depressiveness personally, or any groups that center around dwelling on any negative perception of self. In my experience I've found that it becomes self-reinforcing... if you're lonely and you feel less lonely thanks to your kinship within a group based on shared depression, then your desire to be less depressed becomes subversive to your membership of an in-group. Depression can become an immutable identity trait and not a state of mind that can be overcome with the right treatment.

This part of the interview resonated with me:

> Pourasghar: For one, if you’ve experienced extreme hopelessness at some point and came out of it stronger, I think it prepares you for the rest of your life in a positive way. It gives you a deep-rooted confidence. You learn that whatever comes your way you can always prevail, and I think that leads to allowing for more risk in your decisions. It helps me put any fears into perspective.

> Also, I think my experiences have opened me up to more vulnerability. Unfortunately, we are usually taught that vulnerability means weakness, especially as men. From my experience, I’ve found that opening up to people builds trust. When we bring our whole self to the people around us, we create stronger, more authentic relationships. In general, I’ve learned that it’s possible to turn pain into something positive.

I don't think I would ever use such a service myself though.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclothymia
well they do file tax returns, but you know what I'm saying :P
They indeed are horrible. What is worse is that, out of the box, they don't do much, and the stuff they do is guaranteed to not fit your business. So you end up needing customization, and that's when shit gets real expensive.
It absolutely is not as simple as you seem to make it sound though... a poorly experienced team will end up costing more in time and money than the markup of an outsourced but scaled efficient team.
I'm a big fan of Vue.js over React because of how much smaller and simpler it is. VuePress looks interesting. Is this seen as a competitor to GatsbyJS, or is it more focused on only docs sites?
If you think a preimage attack against MD5 is "trivial" you should demonstrate it. People would be very interested in this because no one has managed to do it yet.

Creating two files with the same MD5 is a very different beast from creating a file with the same MD5 as an arbitrary pre-existing file. These third parties would need to have colluded with the DragonFly developers to make what you're proposing possible.