skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What, I’ve just got to link to C libraries and write the bindings myself? This seems a bit ridiculous.

I think it's a good scenario: it seems that in most cases available libraries don't expose a C API at all.

I had thoughts similar to the article's conclusion, and even a prototype of a similar GUI (stdin/stdout, s-expressions), but then decided that a subset of HTML (or XUL, as mentioned in another comment, though not sure how reusable libxul is, and it seems pretty close to a full web browser with its scripts and events) would be fine, though didn't get to trying it out. Currently GTK seems usable to me, even if imperfect.
In theory, PoS would fix the energy waste. Unfortunately, aside from ETH, nobody has a real roadmap so I doubt it will make much of a dent.
There a lot more than you would think down here: Honda, Mercedes, Kia, Toyota, Mazda all have plants and many of their suppliers are also in state.
i don't think it was because of the phone but because enraged_camel takes preventative measures to block tracking tools and "normal people" do not. note that it's "on my computers and...." not just "iphone"
I remember dabbling with Visual Basic 5.0 as a teenager. It was pure godsend and bliss compared to turbo basic (executables !). I never found glade, xul and other tech stack as easy to use and get into (flash mx 2004 was cool as well but not as much because the web).
This is the same reason the SLS wont get cancelled, I believe it funds suppliers/contractors in all 50 states. It will never get voted to be cancelled.
California opens investigation into Tesla factory safety
Currently WASM can't access the DOM. But WASM-native DOM APIs are planned and then you will be able to completely ditch Javascript if you want.
Doesn't that make it more wasteful? Those people could be doing something more useful
Who anywhere has suggested that Stack Overflow is 10% rape and murder threats? This is an absurd standard that is being advanced.

Of course I can't prove that. I never wanted to. The author is using a straw man so potent he can comfortably put a lot of money behind it.
Spark vs. Redshift: Which is better for big data?
To be fair, this particular investigation alleges that Tesla has underreported workplace-related injuries by classifying them as minor or unrelated personal issues; Tesla argues that it does not misclassify injuries. The integrity of the public data (what Tesla is required to report) is in question, so I don't know if we can call it "verified", other than in the official sense (i.e. we know what Tesla has officially reported).
TL;DR:

Parametrize your loss function and wrap a normal policy optimization with a random search to find a better loss function. Don't call it "random search," call it "evolution strategies" to make it sound sophisticated.

Neat idea.
The experts that I talked to in this space in deciding to close my sites to EU IPs have all said that the GDPR probably doesn't apply to incidental traffic - especially if someone is actively trying to hide the fact that they are in a GDPR area. But nobody can guarantee a single thing, because it's so broadly written and is up for unique interpretations in each of dozens of foreign countries. It meets the very definition of a bad law - too broad and will cause decreased economic opportunity for those that are subjected to it.

FYI you can reply to other posts when the thread is this deep by clicking on the "X minutes ago" thing on the comment your want to reply to.
Am I the only one who thought throughout; "I could turn that thing, just drag your foot across the outer most wheel in the direction you want to turn." Let the friction, and unequal spinning speeds to the work.

(The wheels can't be locked to each other, otherwise that would also cause the bricycle to be unable to turn, thus invalidating the whole experiment.)
Syria's "implosion" didn't just fall out of the sky, it was induced by the US and it's allies as a means to oust Assad. Nobody disputes that, the only thing in dispute is whether or not the ends justify the means, meaning is ousting Assad a desirable end that justifies the current proxy war or not.
In its wasm-rewrite, the source-map module acquired a destructor that must be manually invoked by its clients [1]. This makes the API much worse. Is this typical of JS APIs that use wasm?

1: https://github.com/mozilla/source-map#sourcemapconsumerproto...
> Using longer sentences and adding arbitrary words does not make an explanation more complex.

Exactly.

A creator-god does not explain the complexity of life, it just adds an additional layer, so the combined system is more complicated than the original. That's precisely what Occam's Razor rejects.
They may also look at the socioeconomic status of the people you associate with and make inferences.
Response by StackOverflow's David Fullerton: https://medium.com/@dfullerton07/cto-of-stack-overflow-here-...
They could invent it, but to most of us men, it's just going to look like a pre-existing red. We don't do color distinctions very well. We've got bright red, pale red, and in-between.
That is absolutely baseless.
You cannot blame "politicians" though even though they appear to be the ones in control of the budget. They only do what the population tells them to. The masses are far more willing to tolerate inefficient expensive bloated programs for defense than for civilian programs.

Imagine they actually made that huge trillion dollar infrastructure program. A lot of people would rail against the expense, and worse, every single exposed misstep, story of corruption (which we have from the military too of course but that does not lead people to demand a stop to financing the military), and story about inefficiency or waste will create a lot of bad press and pressure on politicians.

I must say we have pretty much exactly the situation that the overall compound will of the people wants, unfortunately. If the people could accept the level of incompetence, waste and worse that is pretty much normal for any big enterprise (including what we see in private enterprise or dilbert.com would not be so popular) then the politicians/government could experiment with massively funding something non-military for a change.

Each time I hear a story that could be changed by some people who seem to be in control (but I would like to point to the king in Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's "The little Prince") I briefly try to imagine what would happen if they would actually do that. I usually conclude that people with public power (from CEO to politician) don't have nearly as much power or control as seems to be assumed, instead they just go with the flow (they have to!) and the problem is actually caused by all of us. Nobody individually though. There is a certain network dynamic that prevents the individuals from really doing things differently, there always are forces that keep us on our tracks even when individually we see other paths.
Hey!

Heather — Curriculum Manager for Grasshopper here :)

That's the simplified Haitian flag.

The small teaser image you're seeing is the Haitian flag: blue at the top, and red at the bottom (the white is simply the background color).

The aim of that puzzle is to change the bottom stripe from yellow to red; changing the Ukrainian flag to Haitian.

Hope this helps explains things :)
> The F-35 program is an amazing thing in 2018 when every war in the last two decades has been mostly about ground insurgents.

Iraq? (The battle against Hussein, not the occupation afterward.)
I'd assume they are already using this. FB ads already allow you to target ads based on household income.
I read a while back that it's a good language for generating code using genetic algorithms: http://lapinozz.github.io/project/2016/03/27/generating-brai...
For an interesting take on this, read about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajneeshpuram and consider watching the documentary "Wild Wild Country" on Netflix. I thought it was fascinating.
The article didn't say anything about his office space or people that worked for him. It mentioned twitter and website. If you go far enough through my photos you can find enough pics of me at the airport and the beach holding a drink.
Yes, that was the link. I have trouble believing it makes a huge difference.

I suppose you could hypothesize that the increased propensity for mostly college-educated millennials to live in certain cities comes about partly because they're marrying later and/or are having fewer kids. But, in that case, I think the common thread is that they're not moving out to the suburbs for the schools and the yard--not that they're two-income households.

I'm certainly willing to believe that the urbanization trend seemingly being strongest among a demographic having fewer and later kids may well not be a coincidence.
and stopped thinking I would be "cool" to switch to dvorak

If you're thinking of switching (or not) to a product or service because of the inventor's personality, you're already "not cool".

If people based their use of Linux on Linus's personality, it'd still be a hobbyist OS.
If it is extortion why are their offices empty?
You can send an arbitrary about of Bitcoin in an on-chain transaction. Payment channels also allow you to send Bitcoin off-chain.
Having worked on a large native codebase with RN features integrated for a couple of years now, there are a lot of downsides for our particular use case. I am aware that some of these are organizational rather than strictly technical issues, but I think there are very few organizations that would not face similar hurdles:

- Instead of 2 platforms to support, we now have 3

- Debugging issues that cross Native <> Javascript is a nightmare. Only a few developers are skilled enough to do it well. Even then, the overhead involved in determining with certainty that the issue is on the native or the JS side and engaging the relevant developers negates most savings.

- Code that's shared across teams is difficult to share with the JS teams and vice versa. Consistency between native and RN is poor.

- Adding JS to the codebase exploded our dependency graph. One feature team introduced over 700 (!) dependencies via npm, which brings me to:

- Enforcing code/quality standards is difficult. Same app, completely different tech stacks

- Educating JS developers about ensuring compatibility with native dependencies is an ongoing expense

- Massive new attack surface area is now exposed via the increased dependencies (see https://hackernoon.com/im-harvesting-credit-card-numbers-and...)

I can go on. I think it's actually a super cool and ambitious technology. I had the opportunity to hack on some of the internals as part of an exploration to see how easy it'd be to share our native UI components with it, and that was pretty darn fun. It's just very, very poorly suited for integration with an existing large codebase, and decidedly not a miracle solution.

If I were bootstrapping a startup with no existing codebase and needed to target web, Android and iOS it'd be a no-brainer to use RN, but that's a quite different scenario.
FreeNAS supports lz4 compression on ZFS, but I'm not sure if that a ZFS feature or what.
There is disruption yes. It's usually short however we always see retries in our logs for a few minutes. Our app doesn't need perfect uptime though and we haven't tried the HA setup.
Like when the polish tried to stop hitlers blitzkrieg with horse drawn artillery and dragoons and whatnot. Didn't work out for them, I feel like thats what the F-35 is, some kind of flying "maginot line" or soemthing like that. It looks good on paper but is functionally useless for future conflict.
Would be nice to have a study on giving agenda-free positive undivided attention as a baseline and then variations with different activities.
Depending on how much you're needing, knowledge-wise, I've heard incredibly good things about Lambda School.

Although if you're already in tech, it probably would be less than productive.
So here’s what I remember from American and World History classes.

World War II is joined by the US. Shortly after we start selling war bonds to raise tons of operating capital. We commandeer Detroit and have them build airplanes. No new cars are made for something like four years.

The draft starts, women start making the airplanes, and any raw material that goes into equipment or feeding the army gets rationed.

After the war “we need to be prepared” morphs from maintaining a strong industrial complex into a special case: the MIC. Maybe because we felt that World War III would be fought in weeks and not years.

I don’t think we know that to be the case anymore. Wouldn’t it be better for the peace time welfare of Americans to spend this volume of money on all of the constituent pieces needed to build a war machine but in plowshare form.

Domestic production of steel, aluminum, titanium, rocket motor parts. High explosives. High output robust turbofans. Transsonic passenger jets. Sensor arrays, predictive systems, generators, high torque motors (IC and electric), rifles, tents, ruggedized integrated circuits.

Only a few of those are strictly wartime products.
Most of it sits in vaults.
There is No Foo Bar (and it's time to stop using foo/bar/baz)
I agree that having the panel decided in advance would be better, but I don't think that discredits the overall challenge, or the goal. It doesn't say you have to decide the panel make up after you start, so there is no reason to assume you couldn't negotiate that up front. If the author is making unreasonable demands during that negotiation, you've lost at worst an hour or two of time emailing back and forth, and you can write your own article fully discrediting this challenge.

I guess my point is that potential for unreasonable demands, doesn't make this challenge any less (or more) valid. Regardless, I appreciate your perspective on this, and your willingness to engage in a discussion of it.
What are you skeptical about? That this person's friend is actually injured? That it happened because of tesla? People get injured at work. Maybe not where YOU work, but it absolutely happens.

Also, the subtext of your comment - that this person OF COURSE would have contacted a news organization if their claim was legitimate is frankly very weird.
You're not misremembering. There was an enormous setback in the usability of GUI programming when the web was invented. The first reason is that the whole platform is built on the jagged rubble of the 90s/2000s platform war. But the second is just that, with so many different languages and systems in play, tool and library support just can't keep up. What made Delphi great was that there was one integrated framework that knew about everything from your visual design to your databases - you could integrate them all, get autocomplete, etc.

These days, we write Python that generates SQL in order to generate HTML, then write Javascript to talk HTTP to the Python and then generate HTML that gets interpreted into the screen by CSS...and there is no way a tool can present the result of that in a coherent manner (let alone autocomplete it!).

(I get an up-close view of this because I cofounded Anvil - https://anvil.works - which does the complete opposite of this at every level. All in Python, one framework, all autocompleted - basically a modern Delphi for the web.)
> Using longer sentences and adding arbitrary words does not make an explanation more complex.

You mean like what you did?

"There is God" doesn't explain anything. You're relying on the reader to already know what God is, and how God affects things.
The ASUS Tinker Board is a compelling upgrade from a Raspberry Pi 3 B+
Around query pricing, my understanding is BigQuery charges by bytes scanned uncompressed. Redshift Spectrum/Athena charges by bytes scanned compressed. That makes Athena/Spectrum cheaper as well.
> It was difficult to find employees to go on the record. Like a lot of tech companies in Silicon Valley, workers signed non-disclosure agreements. NDAs usually are put in place so workers don't share any trade secrets or proprietary technology. So some workers were scared to talk to us because of this NDA they sign for working at Tesla.

Damn, so workers were afraid to speak up and spread the injury info because they were forced to sign an NDA and we’re worried about being sued. I think somebody needs to do something about this NDA situation, it’s getting out of control in SV
I imagine you in this vid:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AoKErz_HtGA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZxX3-rJoNI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BniKoHRlMi0
The change was which side of the road they drive on.
Agreed, but how do you know for certain they don't surreptitiously upload your contacts after you have granted permission?

Sounds like you are on iOS?
Or maybe we should stop using the razor, because it us way too often wrong. I the absence of evidence, you don't know and eithe admit that or guess probabilities.
LZ4 is a ZFS feature as far as I know, and works really well. So well, that I think it should be default.

But dedup is why I'm interested in VDO.
I'd be fascinated to see what that looks like.
This is 100% the "move fast and break things" culture SV has come to adore over the last decade. Things also includes employees and pesky labor laws.
I thought this ICO was out of Frankfurt Germany?
This is cool. Another possible use is as an oracle for smart contracts.
Thanks. The constructor thing can be illustrated similarly (found an online compiler, I don't normally python...).

class A:
i = -1
def __init__(self, num):
if num <= 0:
raise(Exception('noo!'))
def go(self):
print('A has value {}'.format(self.i))

class B:
def go(self):
print ("B ran!")

b = B()
b.go()

b.__class__ = A
b.go()
Perhaps in morgues? If the corpse going to be cremated, for example, remove a few parts to eat, the cremate the rest.
Drones are slow, not stealthy, can't vtol and fly from aircarrier, can carry much less ordinance, can be jammed, don't have air-to-air radar and modern missiles integration.

If you try to build drone with all of features of F-35, you may get even more expensive project.
If these cards were run in proper systems, they would be fine.

The concern is that mining rigs are literally made by stuffing 64 AMD cards on risers in a filing cabinet with minimal airflow, running at 100% usage and 90+ Celcius for months on end.

The high heat for extended periods of time will degrade silicon, which is why manufacturers may refuse to RMA cards if they find issues related to mining[0].

The short of it is the probability of a used mining card failing is much higher than a used card from a regular gaming system.

[0]:https://www.pcgamer.com/cryptocurrency-mining-may-void-warra...
Pretty sure that is the reason. It's the phone equivalent of verifying an email. They ping, you pong, it goes on a list of verified numbers.
If this is indeed an exit scam, the founder did himself no favors by posting south park memes etc.

The more interesting case is what would happen if instead, he'd just quietly take his money and go his merry way. It seems to me that it could be quite difficult to charge an ICO founder with a crime:

- ICOs do not sell equity in the underlying company.

- ICOs are not debt in the underlying company.

- An ICO buyer acquires neither a stake in the company, nor a right to interest payments. They acquire a bunch of tradeable integers. As long as they got their integers, and the trading platform still works (which in my limited understanding is not hard to do for Ethereum based coins), what cause of action does a buyer have against the company?

Even in cases where there IS a traditional debt or equity relationship, large white collar crimes are often hard to prove. ICO related scams might be all but impossible to prosecute if the principals refrain from spiking the ball, unlike this founder.
> Syria's "implosion" didn't just fall out of the sky, it was induced by the US and it's allies as a means to oust Assad.

A bunch of Syrians (peacefully) protested Assad's power. He started killing people. The protests stayed peaceful for months, but eventually, the protesters got tired of getting killed, and the violence turned into a civil war. That wasn't "induced" by the US.

> Nobody disputes that...

False.
> Giving meaning to ...

Ingesting such amounts of data is a challenge indeed. But problems will become much more complicated if it is necessary to perform complex analysis during data ingestion. Such analysis (not simply event pre-processing) can arise because of the following reasons:

* It is physically not possible to store this amount of events. For example, assume you collect them from devices and sensors

* It is necessary to make faster decisions, e.g., in mission critical applications

* It can be more efficient to do some analytics before storing data (as opposed to first storing data persistently and then loading it again for analysis)

Such analysis can be done by conventional tools like Spark Streaming (micro batch processing) or Kafka Streams (works only with Kafka). One novel approach is implemented in Bistro Streams [0] (I am an author). It is intended for general-purpose data processing including both batch and stream analytics but it radically differs from MapReduce, SQL and other set-oriented data processing frameworks. It represents data via functions and processes data via column operations rather than having only set operations.

[0] Bistro: https://github.com/asavinov/bistro
Why should horrible low-level or platform-specific languages be our only options for building GUIs?
Issues have been opened for native DOM bindings in WASM, but I am not sure if that work ever started. As others have mentioned there is the hosting bindings API that is well underway, which provides web APIs to the WASM container so that code compiled to WASM can interact with the JavaScript outside it. This doesn't sound like what you are hoping for though.

At this time, and for the foreseeable future, there are no plans with active code in development to implement WASM as a JavaScript replacement, at least to my knowledge.
Data engineers vs. data scientists
God is simpler then original theory of evolution which is simple the current evolutionary theory.

Occam razor favors simplications over careful analysis.
ZFS's dedupe is, I believe, 64k block dedupe; VDO's is 4k block dedupe.
cockroachdb is a distributed SQL database system that solves all the problems mentioned in this article.
If you can't use the basic tools, there are not going to BE any results.

The metaphor is ridiculous.
You'd probably notice if your five year old Ferrari faded to a pink.

> Red 254, aka Ferrari red, for example, is safe and popular, but it’s also carbon-based, leaving it susceptible to fading in the rain or the heat.
You mean this:

do while .t.
@ 22, 1 clear to 22, 78
@ 22, 26 say 'Ready to Print ? <Y/N> ' get cPType pict '!' ;
valid ( cPType = 'Y' .or. cPType = 'N' .or. cPType= 'H')
read
if cPType = 'N'
exit
elseif cPType = 'H'
jAlert( ';Help on Print Formats - Press : ;;' + ;
' Y for normal bill without leaving no blank lines;' + ;
' N for aborting bill print ;' + ;
';' + ;
' L for Large bill covering an A4 size paper'
)
loop
endif
invoice_print( cPType )
exit
enddo

This piece of code executes linearly, there are no events to listen for and so no callbacks. There are only keyboard events that occur at specific times in the program's execution. No mouse events that'd have generated events that you'll need an asynchronous model of the program to deal with. And this screen is fixed size - 24 lines and 80 columns; it has 16 colors: red, green, blue, yellow, and the rest. The window doesn't resize nor the screen size ever change.

Modern GUI however has events and has to work on devices with all sorts of resolutions, and they support mouse and asynchronous execution. The program model is vastly more complex, and although the good old days were really really nice, they would probably never be back.
That feels like computing bugs in general.
> actually high-tech unlike Tesla’s

citation needed.
The Californians Are Coming
I read somewhere that “money doesn’t change who you are but amplified who you already are”

I’d like to think that there is truth in that.