skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>He who controls the past controls the future.

Hard to see this as anything other than an attempt to minimize and erase Canadian culture, such as it is. Nice A / B with the french counterpart, where there is political will to bolster theirs.
Autoencoders in Practice
You won't see .av1 file extensions, it will still be in a .mkv or .webm container.
My Macbook Pro has custom upgrades (RAM and disk) and it IS eligible for the replacement program according to the form.
In addition to many valid comments here, i have to add that these things will work only as long as they are applied to a tiny minority of population.

In essence, there won't be so many ways to invest the $500 to make $90 a month, as mentioned in the article. When a tiny fraction of people get that money, they benefit. When everyone will, there won't be much to invest it into - just to spend, and poor will remain poor, because being poor is a matter of class, not money (something which is a no-brainer for Brits to understand, for example). It's not about what you do or even what you have, but of who you are. Sadly, there is almost no way to change it with $1000, or even $100,000.
Is that possible to sell popular but not monetized browser extension?
What do you think, is that possible to sell well-rated and unique browser extension with ~100k users monthly? Or, at least, find an investor for developing the product. The extension doesn't have any monetization right now.

I am trying to understand where is the cash-flow on browser extensions market.
I'm not talking about donations because there are only a few good examples (Adblock?).
Me and my friend have an extension with a similar amount of users (100k/month), and donations are less than $30 monthly.

Direct selling, via Chrome Web Store, for example, also not so popular. Have you ever bought an extension? :D I guess, no.

Do you know any cases?
> far more unfilled jobs than there are unemployed people

That can't mean "unfilled jobs at market wage", because jobs at market wage get filled (that's what market wage means). So you're talking about unfilled jobs at below market wage. Of course there'd be tons of those posted. Not sure that comparing it to the number of unemployed people means anything.
The amount ( two right now) is also telling a story about this topic...

The only place in see (more at least) old people is IT consulting. Might be biased or just perception though.
Any optometrists want to chime in as to whether this a good idea to for many hours per day over a long time period (say 10 years)?
Just after science made clear there is no safe amount for drinking alcohol, we get this study, feeding us a new feel-good / excuse story for drinking.

Maybe I'm being cynical, but who paid for this research?
I believe, in this context, that he's not dismissing the reality of sexism in Silicon Valley so much as suggesting it's not worse than other industries but getting a lot more attention than other industries right now. The SlateStarCodex post he links to [1] is really worth reading and makes the same point more effectively.

[1] http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/09/16/cardiologists-and-chine...
Triage systems
My dream startup is a next generation telco (without the usual data cap bullshit) but I have yet to crack the spectrum problem. Spectrum is auctioned off by the government and it's hard to compete with the existing players; we're talking amounts close to billions here, and that kind of money is not easy to come by, even from VCs.
One can have a material impact on people's security, and thus everything from financial stability to physical safety. The other results in some companies making less money via advertising than they otherwise would have.

Both involve money, but let's not pretend that the more money involved, the more important something is.
Because of an "unforeseen code relationship", they say. What more could we want to know?

It sounds like some other piece of MS software is relying on .NET not performing the checks that it should have been performing.
Do you really think it is likely that we would be in a similar situation where we have literally run out of food and people are starving?

I'd agree that people would revolt if they were starving to death, but bad harvests don't happen on a continent wide scale. It is effectively impossible for a 1st world country to have most of its population literally starving to death.
I meant why people thought it wouldn't be needed. For me they are different things so trying to understand the argument.
There's a reason why copper isn't used in chip manufacture; something to do with reacting with or diffusing into silicon dioxide.

Huh?

A number of years ago when I was still doing chips, copper was quite popular. Wikipedia claims it still is[1]: copper-based processes continue to be the state of the art for the semiconductor industry today.

As Wiki explains, the key is "dual-Damascene". They inlay copper into trenches.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copper_interconnect
Passing data to a bootstrap modal?
Once you have enough points, yes.
This can be solved by selling plans by speed instead of data caps; ie, you pay for a guaranteed speed (like 1Mbps) and can use it as much as you want. The more speed you buy the more expensive it gets, with the full LTE speed being crazy expensive as you'd essentially be buying out the entire tower in that case (but then again, who needs 150Mbps+? I'd be happy with a stable 10Mbps to be honest, for mobile there is rarely a need for more).
I hope Ubuntu gets better at updating FFmpeg by bringing it in from the "universe" category of unsupported packages. Or second best option, stops shipping it.

Just this week there was an update showing that they had nearly a year-long window of vulnerability due to out of date version[1].

A media format christmas tree like this has really a lot of vulnerabilities & exposes the user to them fairly directly through media files.

[1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ffmpeg/+bug/169778...
I would love a GraphViz like tool which produces more beautiful graphs. Example:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/gigile/3505955900

Note how well the overall graph fits into the rectangular format. GraphViz sucks at this. This image is not perfect though. There are a few unnecessary crossovers.

Another thing I miss in GraphViz are line jumps:

https://support.office.com/en-us/article/add-or-remove-conne...
> But these are eco-friendly bitcoins. In china they burn coal for this. So I think this is definitely a good thing.

I'm hoping this is sarcasm, but in case it's not the cost of opportunity here is the main issue. Imagine all that computer power applied to protein folding simulation, to name a simple, useful-for-everyone task.
This is a release and the Changelog is reporting changes relative to the last release (3.4 series). HEVC NVDEC was added to the tree in Nov '17 and 3.4 was branched off in Oct.
Why We Burn the Unicorn
Thanks. Velocity is the derivative of position with regard to time. Does it exist if there is no time? It might be that momentum is the fundamental thing and velocity is just a consequence of it. Or not, I don’t know.

Momentum has a direct influence on Einstein field equations, and I don’t know enough maths to follow GR (just two A-levels) so I have no idea if that “direct” influence is still present at a no-more-future boundary condition.

My insufficient maths skills are, amongst other things, why I don’t trust my understanding that a black hole singularity really is a no-more-future boundary condition.
Most of these are beautiful, but there are a couple that make me cringe... The Cummins one in particular (http://www.paul-rand.com/assets/gallery/identity/logo_cummin...) has a very MS Paint feel to it to my admittedly untrained eye.
Cray Adds AMD EPYC Processors to CS500 Cluster Supercomputers
Aren't most large-scale javascript applications using typescript or flow these days? I definitely wouldn't try building a large scale javascript codebase without either of those anymore.
> the network has some protection built in for the bad actors that do.

They don't. It's extremely easy to DoS an off-the-shelf (Ericsson, etc) mobile network if you know what to do. All it takes is one packet per minute or so. ;)
A lot of the objections to direct giving seem to coalesce to: "But [some non-zero percentage] will just blow the cash on drugs and sex. So nobody should get anything!"
Are there any other cities in the USA shipping their human waste to other states?

Also, couldn't they better contain the train cars and vent through activated charcoal liners to reduce the odor?
You can do the same with LBA's of a block device.
It's interesting to see where different file systems place the (meta) data.
when robotic physical labor and the cognitive tasks capable by automated software eliminates the ability for the bottom 50, 60, 80% of the population to compete economically, what's going to happen?

For all intents and purposes, we're already here. Farmers are only about 1% of the population, yet they feed us all. Add in house construction and clothing, and there's a very small number of people that provide the rest of us with food, shelter, and housing. That's all we need.

The average westerner has thousands of times more resources than required to exist.

So this scary future where robots rule the Earth and people don't have to work for basic needs? We're living it.

We just found other stuff we like. Stuff like iPods, notebook computers, vacations, stamp collections. Then we make money and trade it around for that stuff.

We'll keep automating, fewer and fewer people will be required to provide for our basic needs, and we'll keep coming up with new stuff we like. I don't see any reason that this pattern is going to change.
You can't really say "does Google use" because Google isn't monolith.

Big companies usually keep teams cross-functional, leaving teams with the discretion to use the correct tool for the job/team.
It is of course not really free of costs, the payment is just indirect via the ad budget included in the prizes of products people buy. And the costs are pooled, which share of the costs an individual user pays depends on his consumer behavior.
The talk mentions they use an in-house framework, but react was probably substituted in to make it more approachable for the audience.
> without talking about John Locke

That was the brilliant new technology part, with the "consent of the governed" and its production.

I was just going for the Cincinnatus, anti-monarchical, angle - why go to such lengths to avoid any appearance of autocratic power, or shred of desire for it. Not even imposing on important families - or favoring them with - a presidential visit.

(For another amusing story of president-elect travel, "Plums delivered nuts safely" is a good search. Coincidentally about a life that years later ended for the reasons mentioned.)
> Wembley stadium in the UK is used as technology showcase for one of our mobile providers

Except they're more interested in pitching their bullshit iBeacon-based "SmartGuide" tracking technology or light show than network access. This is one of the major problems I see with mobile telcos; they seem to get sidetracked on everything but the mobile network which should be their top priority.

No, I don't give a shit about kids programming the light shows or iBeacons, I need fast, rock-solid network access; leave the rest to other companies that have the resources and focus do it better.
What i can create using PHP n MySql?
It’s a good point, but it doesn’t invalidate the fact that we do now enjoy a standard of living unimaginable to a 1400s peasant, in no short order due to the industrialisation of a fair whack of the planet.
Mass starvation is inevitable from the climate change we have already locked in the system alone, not counting unpredictable events like WWIII, a revolution in China, or any number of other low probability high impact events.

The only question is if the extreme high end of food prices during bad harvest years will be larger than the income of the bottom 50% of the population in first world countries in 2040 or 2080.
And then it descends into a bar conversation about incentives, macro-economics, game theory until someone stumbles over the drinks mumbling "but the AI and self driving cars" while the waitress is hoping HN drunks are gonna tip enough to compensate for the low wage industry she's trapped in.
By the time construction is finished, the sludge has moved on to some other lowest bidder.
In the Holy Quran, God speaks about the stages of man’s embryonic development
I was a hardcore Windows user for nearly 20 years (all the way back to Windows/386), but Mac laptops are the best I've ever used, period. I don't need "innovation" or a design refresh as long as they continue to just work. Which they do. I've got a 12" Macbook now, and while it's not perfect, it's faster than my 13" Air, with a better screen, more storage, and it's a full pound lighter. All in all, I love it. (I'd prefer a smidge more key travel, the full-size left and right arrow keys break the tactile usefulness of the inverted-T, and why oh why does it not support Thunderbolt 2?)
> Akka loves the things.

So? Treat Akka as a black box. You can always explicitly pass implicit arguments.
Mad Men is a whole TV series devoted to this hypothesis.
I find this explanation hard to swallow. It sounds too simple.

These are 40-55 year olds we’re talking about, most of which are experienced, savvy and have a solid network of friends and colleagues in the industry.

In most other industries, these are the most valued employees. Look at lawyers, doctors, and even engineers in other fields such as civil engineering. Are their 50 year olds somehow different? Is their “problem” somehow sexier? These fields treat their older employees as experienced authority figures while our treats them as deadweight as evident in this very thread.
The fear is that today’s machines actually are smarter than (some) humans and therefore pushing that segment out of the economy for good.

In the past, automation freed people previously working below their abilities: many manual laborers who would today be professors of literature, or interior decorators, or whatever.

If you now automate the lower rungs of profession, like PR executives, it may no longer work like that.

I’m not sure if that idea is right, and I doubt anybody can be. But it is also impossible to deny outright. This time, it could actually be different.
Wow, that’s awesome, I was looking for something like this a while ago to visualize a state machine. I ended up using graphviz, but I’ll have a look at mermaid for presentations, my diagrams always look super embarrassing.
I think hydrogen cars is a technology that kills itself.

Since pure battery electrics will always have lower operating costs (if the hydrogen is produced from electricity and not oil/gas), and that a BEV is cheaper to assemble (less parts, less piping), the market for hydrogen cars is completely dependent on the price of batteries.

As batteries get cheaper, and rapid chargers get faster, the niche that hydrogen can occupy gets smaller.

The thing is, hydrogen cars are electric cars. It's possible some of them will even include a larger battery and become plug-in. So every hydrogen car sold will also benefit the development of better BEVs.

To me, this is a clear feedback loop that benefits pure BEVs. And where will BEVs be when hydrogen cars actually hit the market with significant numbers and models? What if 150kWh batteries are standard? What if 400kW charging is standard? What if the price is not much higher? These are all within reach. It's just a matter of time, and the hydrogen economy does not seem to be moving fast enough that its got time to spare.

But I fully support all subsidies and financial support for development of hydrogen fuel cells. Maybe it won't be success in cars, but it could be in other fields.
I was initially surprised they don’t just do this on device. A height map of the city the user is in (say San Francisco) at only one float per square meter though is still fairly large. With a land mass of 121 sq km for San Francisco, that’s 121 million floats or about 500 MB.

The actual area of interest surrounding the user is probably at most 1 km^2, but that’s still 1M points or about 4MB (which can be compressed, and easily quantized with say 16-bit float instead) which I really wouldn’t want some app downloading on demand. It’d be interesting to know how many map tiles they need for a good solution though. 256x256 meters with 16-bit floats is just 128 KB. That seems within the realm of acceptable, especially if it reduces the error in pickup.
The module system in nodejs is far superior as it lets you treat modules like variables, pass them around etc. The root of all complexity is that different code parts entangles. With local requre's all code parts can truly separate which makes it easy reuse and delete code. And you don't have to hunt a function/variable across the whole code base to figure out where and what it's used for.

And it also lazy loads the module. ES6 modules might be a 44 years old standard, but NodeJS modules are better !

For use on the web the web server could grep require from the source and push modules to the browser, so when a module is required it will be loaded from cache. The browser could even pre-parse the module to speed up run-time for when it's required.
I think we're talking about slightly different things here. While many financial institutions (and others now) will provide a plain English explanation of the whole contract, I'm just talking about the key terms.

"Your house may be at risk if you do not keep up with repayments. Variable rates can go up and down." etc.

These sorts of things are required not just at point of agreement, but everywhere a financial product is marketed. They're short enough. Same thing as you'll see in where medical marketing is allowed.

So in that vein, before Facebook takes data about you, it should be explaining that they and their partners operate a marketing platform that is used to monitor and influence your political views. That they can use your photos of you and your children and others for their own marketing purposes. That licenses you grant them to your content are everlasting and irrevocable.

Somebody did a "joke" list of what Facebook's might look like https://signupforfacebook.org/

It's over-done (on purpose) but initialling each term like this should be a requirement for contracts that subvert your rights [to privacy, here] as is required elsewhere.

I don't have data on the efficacy of said warnings. The rules here have existed longer than I have. But it's not illogical to suggest that forcing somebody to actually engage with the text before they give up data will mean more will read it.
> injecting values constructed dynamically

You can also do this with default arguments, e.g. like so:

let f x y =
let g (a = x+1) b = ...
...

For example the following is valid OCaml:

let bump ?(step = 1) x =
let waa ?( a = step+17 ) b = a * b in
x + step + waa 666;;

Here the function waa has a default argument whose default argument depends on bump's default argument.

> recursive/derived implicits

Recursion is quite restricted, for example this is not valid Scala:

def f ( x : Int ) ( implicit y : Int ) : Int = {
implicit val a = 17
f ( x+1 ) }
> When I interview candidates I attempt to engage them in technical argument where I purposely make some questionable statements. How do they attempt to correct you? Do they leave the door open for their opinion to be incorrect. You can learn a lot about what someone will be like to work with just using this simple technique.

This is a very good idea! Thank you very much.
"dismissing the content of this article because Binswanger inherited his money"

That fact should pretty much exclude Binswanger from having a public opinion on it because, whilst he may have worked hard for what he's got, the very fact of his being an 'heir' means his opinions will always be coloured by the likelihood of a life born into privilege.

Even if the ideas presented make sense in a highly-complex interwoven society, having articles written by someone potentially starting with heavy assistance will not help their cause. Get a genuine gutter-to-penthouse self-made person to write up how the common worker should be more thankful to their upper management and company-owners that they rarely see, much less have any interaction with. I'd read that with interest.

(Disclaimer: I've not read Rand, so I'm knowingly squarely within dmfdmf's crosshairs. I understand the basic concepts, but do need to actually read the source material - and am planning to do so, in order that I can "deconstruct" properly)
Import from excel to data table vb.net?
I hope Google et.al. will attempt to replicate this finding on a larger scale internally. Imagine whole SV jumping on to that bandwagon!
I don't think this really matters, it's not the computers that would be reused but the infrastructure. These are essentially buildings with good ventilation and plenty of power and an internet connection that can likely be upgraded too. That's already quite useful
Yes, I see what you mean.

In cases of extreme poverty, everything is complicated. The problem is there wether we change/evolve the productive model or not. The problem is there right now and it was there 50 years ago, 100 years ago and so on.

If you take away their low qualification "jobs" because of technology, new low qualification jobs will arise. They will be at the same position at least but chances are they will improve their life quality. That is what I think at least.

Do you think that avances in technology an automation will make the life of this people worse?
Will progress make this people's life more miserable?

Will progress make the rich/poor people gap bigger?

What is the _root_ of this problem?

Are companys investing, making research and developing technology guilty or responsible of this?

Do we have to make them responsible of this (ie, make them pay) ?

Some may see this different, maybe we should instead pay and encourage/incentivize this companies for their work?
More like reuse an existing bureaucracy instead of creating a parallel, private one.
Probably, you can optimize .forEach even more. You can get 'arr.length' and 'let i = 0' outside of the for-loop.

It could be faster according to this test:
https://jsperf.com/extended-array-loops-performance
I'm not saying implicits and default parameters are the same thing. I'm saying the key idea behind implicits is the realisation that default arguments merge two ideas that should be kept separate, if we want context dependent defaults. Some of implicit's other features can (and have been) added to default arguments, see my other reply.
Do you have any experience with complex systems where a security patch could possibly take more than three months to implement?
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They do need a stable internet connection though that can't be super slow, so I'd assume it could always be upgraded with fiber. The stable and plentiful power on it's own will be very interesting.