skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Please show me this CPU with a higher transistor count.

That was my question to you. You claimed, "It's 2018 and the top chip on that chart still has the highest transistor count of any CPU on the market." Which I take to mean that you don't know of any CPU with any higher transistor counts, which is an argument from silence. There could be a CPU outside of your knowledge.

So, we wait to see. Moore may be dead but "moore" time may be needed to hold the funeral.
Building an Observation Deck
The thing is, you aren't reinventing the wheel. There is a certain amount of repetition in programming... you will always need to sort a list, or iterate a for loop, or assign a couple of variables.

There is a re-occurring thread of inventors (especially on here) building things that are more complex than necessary, and certainly more complicated than the problem they are working on. React, Angular, Electron, and a lot of other tools all use 1000 words where 100 would do. If you go through programming thinking that that is normal, or acceptable, you are doing more harm to the ecosystem and your own knowledge than if you had "reinvented the wheel" a couple of times on smaller tasks.

In the long run neither frameworks nor languages matter. If programming to you is reaching for the latest framework du-jour then you will find yourself left in the dust unless you keep with technology's futile and arbitrarily-hastened pace. (And no, I do not consider it OK that this is considered necessary) But if you master the concepts of what the tools do... then you start seeing just how badly and inefficiently they are written. Then you find yourself bypassing them, and simultaneously completing projects faster than ever while writing bespoke code that fits your requirements perfectly, and is also much easier to maintain (because hey you wrote it)
Health concerns are a valid point.

And I'm not trying to discredit someone with different opinions. I'm trying to understand that person on a deeper level than they've so far given.
> We’re creating a new programming language, tightly integrated with an editor, compiler and PaaS, to allow engineers to build distributed applications using high-level primitives.

Not sure if this is ambitious enough. Maybe you should make a database, too :)

But seriously, you'd have to convince me of a lot of things before I consider using a service like this, much less basing a business off of it:

1) The bar for your language is going to be high. Not only does it need to be appreciably better than everything out there, it needs to compensate for a lack of community / libraries.

2) You'll need to show me that your language is production ready. For most languages, it takes years to build up that level of confidence.

3) Holy vendor lock-in, Batman! What happens if you go out of business? You mean you're trying to lock me into an ecosystem that you haven't even built yet?

4) If that's not all, a new editor as well? Editors are substantially harder than most programmers think they are. It's hard to make them fast, harder to make them intuitive and there are tons of companies who focused solely on editors who have failed.

5) "High-level primitives"? "Use APIs as easily as if they were functions"? Honestly, sounds like using AWS services with Boto.
United Airlines is probably one of the worst I've seen: http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2016/0...

Not even free text but only allowing a limited set of answers via dropdown menus (most of the provided answers don't apply to me either, so it's both insecure for them and hard for me to remember as well)
True. I think that a lot of folks think racism will end if those people just stop being openly racist, though, which is silly.
Model-Based Structure: Key to Success in a Data-Driven World
This. They are paying you for locking your startup into their platform and then they will get their money back and a lot more.
MP3 was arguably among the most successful format in history, surpassed only by html.

If it is dead now, which it isn’t, the patent has nothing to do with that, because it actually just expired.

MP3 becoming less important is simply a result of incremental improvements on its fundamental ideas, like AAP.
You’d have zero work to do and get paid. Some probably would start a side business.
I'm sure there's people that would take a few months of free paychecks while they work on side projects or just take a break from the grind.

Also, chaos is a ladder. There's probably a huge vacuum of leadership within the company. That's an opportunity for lower-level employees to take on more responsibilities than they'd be given at a normal company. If staying for another few months gives you a good resume project then it might be worth it, even if that project is literally helping shut down the company.
It's a bit nonsensical that it should fall on a person to prove the negative (that they didn't sign something), as opposed to the party claiming that an action took place having to substantiate their own assertion. But I can believe this ended up being the precedent based on the "golden rule".

It seems like a pragmatic individual solution to address this would be to sign with an X or line or whatever, and diligently keep a log of everything you sign (perhaps facilitated with a phone app, with a conf code to write next to your signature). Then, when the supposed event isn't in your log, it should be back on the aggressor to prove their case.
Long term, that's an open question! However, we're targeting utility pricing, not premium pricing.

That said, since we're so early we really have no idea.

For our first user, it'll be free for quite a while, and then we'll make it work :)
Fair comment, thought something similar when I first read this, but ML falls into its own category IMO because it's not part of the "application" most of the time. It's back-end in that it's not front-end, but it's not what you'd normally consider the back-end of an app.

A model is built offline, experimented upon, tested, and then once ready "connected" to the main app. Like, the TensorFlow code you write doesn't "need" to be on the server; it could be running on your laptop for all you care. It's the output model that eventually makes it into the back-end ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.

> Honest question: does "back-end" now mean "the CRUD and API client portions of a web-based CRUD app?"

Back-end has always meant the CRUD/API portions of a CRUD app.
I work at Facebook and have personally seen no evidence of this.

The article cites one designer who left (out of ~25,000+ total Facebook employees).
There is nothing wrong here, and I agree with pretty much all of it, from vegetarianism to making lists.

But the biggest productivity win that Sam Altman epitomises seems to be a bit glossed over - it's his day job - that of making more efficient organisations of people (no I don't mean "teams", i mean companies, that make eco-systems that make machines that dwarf the output any productive human can make)

Ok - bear with me - imagine a medieval mining company, with some guys in an open face mine, with pick-axes and a few monks tallying up the baskets.

Then invent another company, but this one has the mine-truck on rails, it has a steam engine to pump out the water from 200 feet down, and even Stakhanov style they organise miners into chains.

And up above the office tallying is so complex James Watt as to invent Carbon Copy Paper just to keep up (#)

All the workers in the second one can break for tea, take weekends off and still out-produce the medieval mine by embarrassing amounts.

Jethro Tull invented a wooden contraption the Mythbusters would laugh at and trebled yields in English wheat. Knowing that planting turnips in fallow fields would bring about a miracle is one thing - but that means changes in harvest methods, storage, onward logistics and more.

Some of it is because of "technology" but more so it's organising around the technology. We have all experienced companies that cannot move with the times. And many companies and organisational structures from
the middle ages have failed to adjust. And failing to adjust means failing to bring in those harvests - and that's a waste.

So my rather belaboured point is that Sam Altman has actually kinda nailed it on his first sentence - pick the right job to work on. But the job he works on is waaay more important to his productivity than his list making prowess -that job is maximising the number of times humans try out new ways to put technology to use.

Give a steam engine to a open cast mining organisation and will they move to deep mining? Give a Roman society of slaves Hero's steam engine and will they give up their social structure? There are so many ways we can miss the next step that any step chnage in entrepreneurship is surely a win for us all?

Anyway, in the micro-side the lists and the staying healthy are all good and sensible. i should do more of that instead of posting on HN :-)

(#) He really did. His steam engine business was a true multinational startup success story!
Using random characters for answers to "secret questions" only works when you can be 100% sure you will never have to give the answers over the phone. If you ever have to do that, random characters are worse than reality, because phone reps will just say, yeah, you're right, it's gobbledygook.

I give arbitrary answers that would make sense to something like an AI. Like, "Q: Who was your father's first employer? A: Avocado flesh" or "Q: What is your mother's maiden name? A: Rutherford B. Hayes"

Of course, all such answers are stored in my password manager.
That wouldn't solve the giant club problem. Or you'll have the disorienting sensation of turning the wheel and having your POV swing sideways instead of pivoting. Possibly barf inducing since your body would be pivoting.
Somewhere in a room HBO's Silicon Valley writers are secretly reading this blog post for inspiration for jokes for the next season :)
The MP3 patents expired last year FYI
Well, the entire application is built with the purpose of guiding users into this choice. It's at the point where the longer you've run the application without procreating, the stronger the manipulation becomes.

Even people running the application in Gay Mode or loading other modules using the Gender Extension APIs run into this problem.
Data Dealer, the gleefully sarcastic game about data privacy (2013)
Mozilla's Internet Health Report 2018
> Public transit in Minneapolis is basically for poor folks or those with DUIs

What? No.

I'm in Minneapolis. I live downtown. I find using the bus and light rail far more convenient and easy then a car. Let alone the baggage a car brings such as maintenance, insurance, upfront costs, and not to mention parking.
No doubt. Extrapolating down the current trajectory, probably dovetailed with law enforcement concerns, there's no way that doesn't happen.

Encryption moots all the additional value they're trying to create.

That's essentially their play with mobile-accessible first party content players. Make it easy / mandate it, and people will happily walk into the walled garden where they can be watched.
Adopting a new language with no ecosystem of libraries seems like a hard way to build useful applications. Or does Dark build upon an existing ecosystem like Elixir and Erlang? Dark's feature set reminds me a lot of Erlang.
(Ozgun from Citus Data)

What really excites me about this blog post is how PostgreSQL is becoming central across diverse workloads - including real-time analytics.

A few Postgres resources that relate to this blog post are the following.

1. TopN: Several Citus customers were already using the TopN extension. Algolia contributed to revising the public APIs in this extension. With these revised APIs, we felt pretty comfortable in open sourcing the extension for the Postgres community to use: https://github.com/citusdata/postgresql-topn

2. Postgres JIT improvements: Postgres 11 is coming with LLVM JIT improvements. For analytical queries that run in-memory, these changes will improve query performance by up to 3x. This will significantly speed up roll-up performance mentioned in this blog post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16782052

3. For those interested, this tutorial talks about how to build real-time analytics ingest pipelines with Postgres: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daeUsVox8hs
Good question. I answered here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16803660
This happened to me but I’d chosen the “write your own question” option, so the lady asked me “what is [childhood imaginary friend]’s middle name?” I told her the answer and she said “that was cute.” I never expected an actual person to ask me the question!
Should you judge someone only by thier mistakes? Are you mistaken yourself? Your reply is missing his successes.

More relevantly, from the article: "The most impressive people I know have strong beliefs about the world, which is rare in the general population. If you find yourself always agreeing with whomever you last spoke with, that’s bad. You will of course be wrong sometimes, but develop the confidence to stick with your convictions."
Eh, even if what they are promising is only economically viable as a proof of concept, it's probabally still better than the "overengineer a system that nobody ever actually uses" situation that's pretty much the norm now.
You're right. Some studies have found it as high as 85%.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heritability_of_IQ
I was recently testing the water with some Facebook engineers about switching companies because of privacy related concerns. There was some sympathy wrt the company going in a bad direction, but by and large they were staying put because they enjoyed the technical challenges presented to them and pay. I think stories like this are mostly fluff. Most engineers simply don’t care.
Facebook Data Collected by Cambridge Analytica Included Private Messages
Just like Bernie Madolff did, expect he never made it but to jail. Holmes must had better lawyers.
The Technique That Ambitious People Use to Get What They Want
Probably not as much as they'd need in advance. If they get in touch we can give more info and figure out if it's a fit.

Edit: some more info here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16803660
I think the real "fake it till you make it" does work and is very common. But you have to "fake" things that are reasonable. So when a customer or employer asks if you can do something, you say yes. It's one thing if you have never done it before. You can surely learn. It's another if you are saying you can do something that no one has ever done before.
You both may be correct. Fundamentally though the philosophy of science prefers a hypothesis that is falsifiable to one too vague to falsify.
So use passphrases that adhere to your security requirements (upper/lower/symbol etc)
Really makes you wonder why people don't value themselves. Does society systematically strip the underclass of their self-esteem? Every single job I've had I knew that the purpose was either 1) to make me money 2) to help me develop skills or career experience. Idgaf about my employer making money (except as it relates to my goals); that's his problem to care about. I'm contracted to provide labor, not make his business profitable for him
Franchise for a C-Corp in Delaware is like $175 for < 10000 shares, California foreign franchise tax can be waived for the first year.
Ugh, I always forget; I don't have a lot of occasions to use it, so it's hard to break the habit. I guess I'm just obtuse.

Thanks for pointing it out.
I think establishing some basic business processes even if they are just checklists, would be a great start.
Great suggestion. We're not ready for that yet (hence our offer), but we'll definitely look into that!
Transfer to Instagram had been a hot thing within FB for quite a while...
AFAIR, they have switched focus to some other bullshit idea called miniLab:

> “We will return our undivided attention to our miniLab platform,” writes Holmes of the new device she unveiled in early August at the American Association for Clinical Chemistry’s convention in Philadelphia. She added that “our ultimate goal is to commercialize miniaturized, automated laboratories capable of small-volume sample testing, with an emphasis on vulnerable patient populations, including oncology, pediatrics, and intensive care.”

http://fortune.com/2016/10/05/theranos-shuts-down-clinics/
I have zero issue with it, but HN is super outspoken about how AMP is the worst thing on the internet.
> Humans are TERRIBLE at remembering passwords

This is the main problem and we created this problem. Over the last 30 years we worked so hard to make passwords weird and not even that hard for computers to try find. If your password is a sentence that you know by heart, say your favorite quote, the motto of your country, of your school, or some cool fact etc... your password would be (1) safer and (2) easier for you to remember. That's what I do and I never have hard time remembering my 4 to 6 word password. I just use bunch of books/movies and remember my favorite quotes. For example "one ring to rule them all" is a good password, or "may the force be with you" or "call me ishmael".
The idea of "faking it till you make it" is about projecting the self-confidence of someone whose already successful. I've never heard anyone use this phrase as a justification for providing materially false statements to investors or whatever.
The pressing need to optimize productivity typically come as one feels age (IMO). The luxury of having enough time to do or not do things decreases at a rapid rate. Now, if you can be happy at your level of productivity and be content with how things are, I would say you are a lucky person. Its not easy to achieve.
I've never used GraphQL and have a question. If you're at a larger company with many services, how many GraphQL servers are running? Who owns them? Is it a server per product? Per org? One for the whole company?

Obviously there's no set rule, but I'm curious how its playing out.
Ah, this article brings back some nice memories of Christmas in 1993 and receiving Myst as a gift[1]. I was dismayed it required a CD-ROM drive, which we didn't have... except... hey what's this other gift? Our family's first CD-ROM drive! It was a momentous occasion! Nowadays CD drives are basically thrift shop throwaways, but back then they cost $hundreds and you were lucky to read at 4x speed. Fortunately, demo CDs suddenly became widely produced and it was easy to find huge libraries of neat new stuff to check out. Far more convenient than trying to download stuff at 1-2kB/sec over dialup! :'D

[1] https://www.flickr.com/photos/amatecha/9930279265/
That's not a replacement nor a competitor for the popular "JPEG" format. The only commonality here is that it's coordinated by the Joint Photographic Experts Group.

You'll never see JPEG-XS images stored on disk or sent over the web. This is a special-purpose format for video signals on the wire (e.g. for transmission between your graphics card and a 4K monitor). Currently if your cables don't have enough bandwidth for the full uncompressed RGB signal, you get lower FPS, or lower bit precision, or subsampled YCbCr. This is an attempt to make something a bit smarter and apply cheap nearly-lossless compression on the fly instead.
> A new JPEG format for virtual reality, drones and self-driving cars

The only buzzword missing from that list is blockchain, and I’m sure they would add it if they could.
Does anybody else not worry about providing access to their investments via direct access to the various exchanges? If they are hacked, they have a direct pipeline to my accounts? Surely not all exchanges are setup to provide secure read only data? And what about the initial auth connection?

I just hate to add another point of vulnerability into an area that is no doubt being heavily targeted by hacking groups
Leap Motion Unveils Controller-Free AR Interface and Headset
I had a Samsung A5: It was polarized-dark under sunglasses like you say. I just thought Apple was an improvement.
First Torrent for just the plains from the list is available:

https://hashes.org/torrent/hibp_plain.torrent
Yes fraudulent behavior should be shelved. And "fake it until you make it" is just a nicer way of saying fraud
Yep -- Los Alamos. You should read "Surely You're Joking," by the way. It's worth it just for the story about finding a hole in the fence, then walking in the guard gate and out the hole again and again until someone noticed.
Ask HN: Alternatives to LinkedIn for Networking?
What does one use for business networking outside of LinkedIn?
I hope they detect nothing. I'm rooting for modified gravity theories.
I just use one of many password managers to generate the passphrase, then enrich with symbol(s) and uppercasing.

It all gets stored in the password manager anyway...
I share that sentiment about web sites. But this is what I am talking about: https://imgur.com/DMOtSaO

That input text field is where I am supposed to type my message. I can't see what I am typing. I can't resize it either. Doesn't that make it unusable instantly?
Not to mention the fact that healthcare is tied to your employer, so if you are the sole breadwinner for a large family, you pretty much have to have another job in hand before you can jump ship. The recession ended a while ago, but it was a relatively jobless recovery and non-tech sectors still haven't recovered fully.
Oregon enacts net neutrality law as Pacific Northwest Trump resistance grows
If you don't mind being a liar
yeah but it wasn’t in the cultural zeitgeist to care about these. Now that it’s popular, many people will want to virtue signal and leave the company so others see how much principle they have.
I wouldn't want to see them sponsor a team. They probably don't have the money to commit to that and win. On the other hand, it'd be fairly exciting to see them supply a drivetrain to one or two of the mid-level teams. (even developing that would be stupidly expensive, however)
I believe he's implying that Tolkien went to world building level of detail extremes that Martin, though thorough in his own right, falls well short of.
> From those big IT companies who treats employees as resources.

I've worked in those companies, they do treat employees as resources. I was amazed how executives, RH and even Project Managers refered to developers literally as "resources", example: "We are happy to announce we have five new resources in project X".

No one seemed to care, that mentality was just sad.
Setting aside high end production houses. Even then things aiming for TV get compressed to a mezzanine format that's heavily compressed (in comparison), then compressed again for TX
I made this bot to replace business cards what should I improve?
Hey folks, I made this bot ( https://www.cardbot.io/ ) a while back to replace business cards - I have a couple power users who love it and literally are not printing business cards anymore. But it's not taking up despite it theoretically being inherently viral. Any suggestions to make it better?
I'm not trying to make it a business only make it better - this is just a fun side project.
I went the one year working holiday visa route from Australia to Sweden >5 years ago and ended up getting a normal employment-based residence permit after getting a full time job. So that's one option.
Just a figure of speach of course. Feyman doesn't use "fucked up" either :)
> They're giving it as an example of something that is backend-heavy that they don't want your product to be like.

I think it's you who have got it backwards.

Here's the entire thing:

"This probably isn’t a good fit if:

Your product is not backend-heavy, such as: an iPhone game, hardware, machine-learning models, blockchain, or embedded systems."

I read that as "if you're a hardware startup, you're not backend-heavy, so you are not a good fit", "if you're an iPhone game startup, you're not backend-heavy, so you are not a good fit", and yes, also "if you're a machine learning startup, you are not backend-heavy, so you are not a good fit".