skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There’s the “tyranny can never happen here” bucket, which the Left has mostly abdicated in the wake of Trump winning after they called (and still call) Trump a tyrant. There’s the “you can’t fight the army with small arms” bucket, which is increasingly unsound given our ongoing decade and a half war with Afghani tribal goat herders. And there’s the “what the hell do you need an AR-15 for anyway?” bucket, which by its very language eschews a fundamental lack of understanding of what those people are thinking.

Yeah, and where's the bucket for "If you have to bring out a gun to shoot police officers, your nation has failed, YOU have failed at protecting your nation and what it stands for, and I'm not interested in your political fantasy where you become a hero to save the day after abdicating your responsibility while everything collapsed"?

If these guys realistically believed America would turn into another Afghanistan, what they need is an airline ticket. Why prepare for a doomed fight when you can retire in Bahamas? If they realistically believe that America is going down and they need to stop it, what they need is to get involved in politics and fight, NOW, to turn the country around.

But no, they want to believe they can be heroes, while at the same time don't want to believe they can do anything about it now, because then they will be responsible for their inaction. So they keep talking about guns, and how everyone else will feel sorry once civilization collapses.
That is not a best practice when there are fundamental differences between mouse vs touch.

In fact, trying to smooth over both desktop and mobile experiences with the exact same UI brush is the main reason we're left with the worst of both worlds.

By the way, Facebook also has hover previews on desktop. :)

Also, force touch OSX UI isn't a replacement when you need to manually highlight multi-word selections for it to work. Wikipedia's and Facebook's previews don't require you to do this.

I don't recommend sitting around and hoping browser vendors solve your problems. They're stuck in one-size-fits-all world while you can develop custom solutions for your site and users.
Auth0 Hack: JWT’s aren’t as great as claimed…. and why it took six months to fix
When I was in middle school, my home economics class had a week on media literacy, and while I only remember one sentence:

“Is a song played on the radio because it is popular, or is it popular because it is played on the radio?”

...it told me everything I needed to know at a young age.

Ten years later I’m introduced to Adam Curtis’ “Century of the Self” and that filled in a few gaps.
Roving gangs won't stick to cities, they will branch out and then that family alone on their homestead won't stand a chance. However if they are in a neighborhood and work together with their neighbors, then they have a fighting chance.
The problem is that using 'human language' is inherently hiding complexity by using an abstraction. You are going to lose information, and that information is probably important to fully understand the thesis of a science paper.
> - Porat says Waymo has achieved 5 million miles of driving on city streets.

Is that and the other Porat comments from the earnings call? The PDF doesn't seem to mention that.
A mathematical case would discuss the benefit you get from prepping once disaster strikes. The article talks a lot about the probability of disaster, but takes the benefit of prepping as a foregone conclusion, and essentially equates prepping with stockpiling guns and ammo.

An actual solid mathematical case for gun stockpiling would need to show that 1) disasters are likely enough to prep for 2) the expected benefits of prepping outweigh the costs and 3) stockpiling guns is a better use of your finite resources than e.g. buying more canned beans.

It hits 1 pretty well, then it gives up and just assumes 3. No surprise that the discussion it generates isn’t very productive.
Rackshack had a a few racks of colbalts too. They were fragile, and some what of a mystery to work with. Once they started offering white boxes on bread racks things actually looked up and support could actually help people because it was the same standard tools they already knew.

Later in the days they made big deals with Dell, and even then we were racking dell desktops and office services on bread racks for a long time. I remember when we got our first few lines of real rack mount servers -- they were sooo sexy.
eps doubles and shares are down...
If anyone is curious about what companies in the S&P 500 rank higher in the revenue per employee metric: https://craft.co/reports/s-p-500-revenue-per-employee-perspe...
Depends on clock rate. This is not for building a microprocessor.

Static power on 180 nm circuit should be negligible, which
won't be the case on a 14 nm FPGA.
I can't help feeling like there is a lot of tool blaming happening when the wrong tools were used in the first place. Wikipedia is pretty easy to scrape general blocks of text (I'm the author of an IRC bot which did link previewing, inc Wikipedia) but if you need specific, machine readable, passages which aren't going to change sentence structure over the years then you really should be getting that information from a proper API which cateloges that information. Even if it means having to buikd your own backend process which polls the websites for the 20 respective OSs individually so you can compile your own API.

Using an encyclopedia which is constantly being updated and is written to be read by humans as a stable API for machines is just insanity in my honest opinion.
Aren't landline and mobile number formats clearly distinct in the US?
Afaik in the entirety of Europe mobile numbers have a different prefix than landlines.
Study – Blockchain for Social Impact: Moving Beyond the Hype [pdf]
providing insights to your log data faster then ever before with machine learning big data
Can you elaborate more on your home setup?
Are they seriously re-doing MMS?
The side project I'm currently working on is trying to get my sleep schedule under control. I'm finding that worrying about the "competition" at all hours is preventing me from getting enough sleep at night. So I put a hold on a lot of my programming problems in order to get my real world problems squared away first.
yes, and other sources like the bloomberg terminal
I suspect the GP was referring to the transition from handguns to PDWs ("Personal Defense Weapons") in the military. This happened around 1940; the US Army began issuing the M1 Carbine to tank and vehicle crews, as it was much more effective than a .45 ACP handgun while being shorter, lighter, and easier to move around enclosed spaces than an M1 Garand (the issued rifle at that time).

The M1 Carbine and similar weapons basically evolved into submachineguns - first the M3 "Grease Gun", then the M4 Carbine once the transition from battle rifles to assault rifles happened for front-line infantry.
so, you can only run Bubble stuff on their systems? That means it isn't yours at all. What happens when they go bust? what about your apps then?
> "Google designers should definitely take a page out of Firefox's book and use a side-scrolling system, which keep tab names visible."

What? God no, that's the worst anti-pattern in tabs. Keep all tabs visible all the time. If there are too many tabs, then the user can choose to clean them up however they like (by closing some, splitting some off into another window, etc.) A scrolling window of tabs is horrible from a usability perspective. You have no concept of how many tabs are open, you have a convoluted experience to switch between tabs on different ends of the tab list, etc.
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Good point, although that wouldn't have meant anything if they kept plodding along with the Bulldozer family. Cut costs + bring new Ryzen chips to market, both parts were needed.
From school? Playing poker online.

People I've learned to know recently? Writing web applications.
https://jsonfeed.org/ has had some preliminary traction. Of course, the reason RSS works so well is that everyone uses the same format. So you wouldn't see so much of a "switch" as a bunch of readers accepting either format, for a very, very long time.

That being said, I don't see what's "wrong" with XML in this context.
Hm, Omega2 seems to run OpenWrt, if I see it right? In that case, it should even just work.

Alternatively, if you want to avoid OpenWrt, there's also ObjFW on bare-metal ARM: https://heap.zone/blog/?68
I mean, using this definition, you could be 'self-informed' about ANY topic - as long as you have the skills, time, and desire to fully immerse yourself in the subject.

And, as you point out, it is literally impossible to do this for every subject - even if we all had infinite aptitude to study and understand all subjects, we don't have the infinite time it would take to do that. Plus, this is an extreme waste of our resources; we specialize for a reason.

We need trust, and you can only spot check that trust every now and then for things that you actually know.
From my own experience, outlying intelligence and interests > social maladaptation > death wish. I’m fine now, but I won’t kid myself that it isn’t tenuous.
I don't think this is ignored by the scientific community at all. For example, Eric Lander's group has a pretty nice treatment of why additive models can't explain heritability [1]. And this is coming from the same Eric Lander who has done some of the key work in complex disease / additive genetic modeling.

Imagine you're in a world where you are handed down some knowledge there are Newtonian models, and more advanced models that use relativity, but you don't know what the constants are yet. We're still looking for the Newtonian constants. We know there is much more out there once we understand the basics. But the basics are still worth understanding.

1 = http://www.pnas.org/content/109/4/1193
An Introduction to Hashing, more like it
Maybe check Amazon's tax rate before "this Republican tax policy" went into effect prior to blaming low corporate tax rates on one party.

If you think lobbyist-driven tax policy in America is ONLY done by Republicans, you should probably expand your reading beyond CNN / WashPo. You're right that the federal government that creates the tax policy is for sale, but it's not just the Republicans.
Two reasons. First, the tech spoke for itself and I was sold, if I could afford it. Don’t insert the friction of having to exchange an email and suck my information out of me to find out the cost. That goes against every theory and study about conversion, dating back to before the web. They have a saying, when you’ve made the sale, shut your fucking mouth. And as my example demonstrates, sales leak out of that funnel simply because people can’t be bothered.

Second, the other saying is if you have to ask how much it costs, you can’t afford it. So by concealing the price, the company is telling me the cost is too high and they know it. They are telegraphing that part of their sales process requires a salesperson to coerce the money out of me.
Yep I agree.

Just a minor bit of friendly feedback on your comment, I hope you don't mind...

You said "Any new insight he might bring". To refer to a hypothetical developer as "he" contributes to the stereotype of developers being male, and that can make those who don't conform to that feel less welcome in the community.

I'm sure this wasn't a conscious decision, and I know it's something I slip up with frequently, but I'm trying not to do it, and I think writing that is more inclusive is more persuasive to more people and generally better.
Discussions about guns here are generally better quality than anywhere else I know. While I don't try to hide my pro-gun bias, I do try to keep the conversation informative and ensure that any statements that I make that are merely opinions are labeled as such.
Why do you need reception to transmit something from a computer to a phone in the same room?

As for out of space, that's a valid concern. But the blockchain itself can store almost nothing - a few bytes per transaction at most. So you'll have to store the data somewhere else anyway, and only point to it using the blockain. And therefore, the question returns: why not store that pointer in the phone itself?
You can say the same thing about text.
If that's not a scam or something that fails in 2 years, it's pretty amazing. At a lifetime of 3500 full-depth cycles it works out to a lifetime capital cost of only 2.2 cents per kWh. In sunny regions, with instantaneous solar generating costs already below 2.5 cents/kWh, it means that you can supply power around the clock at costs lower than fossil combustion.

In a March 2018 report, BNEF put 2017 utility-scale battery costs at $209/kWh:

https://about.bnef.com/blog/tumbling-costs-wind-solar-batter...

And that report was already taking into account global supply chains. That's why I am skeptical about the low Alibaba price. If EPCs can get reliable battery packs at $78/kWh (sans inverter) just by ordering from China, I would expect utility scale battery installation rates to soon go from "brisk" to "breakneck."
Extremely complex video game tech.
This was a blast to read! I enjoyed both parts, and I'm really looking forward to the next.

Reflecting on the pieces, the author is pretty talented at communicating effectively—I found the material interesting, the writing style lively enough to enjoy, and the presentation to have just the right balance of explanation and example. It's so well done I didn't think of any of these things as I read.

The author's bio is also a standout piece of writing to me: http://mildbyte.xyz/about.html
Climate change denial isn't denying some inevitable thing that is so horrible it makes sense not to think about it; there ARE steps we can take to fix the problem.
It's oddly formatted (I thought it was a quote at first), but the article includes this:

>(If you’re already familiar with hash tables, collision handling strategies, and hash function performance considerations; you might want to skip ahead, or skim this article and read the three articles linked at the end of this article for a deeper dive into these topics.)
One way to do it is to teach statistics using poker (or blackjack).
What scares me is that a large number of very bright people nowadays work at places like Google, Facebook and others whose ultimate business model is to hack people's psychology to entice them to buy more stuff. What they are working on will be the perfect toolkit for dictators to manipulate people.
Usually companies grow at a slower rate as they get larger.

Alphabet's growth rate is actually accelerating.

And they're not acquiring this growth, they're generating it organically.

Truly astounding.
That all sounds too familiar. When I was still a little kid going to school, I was using Linux and found Objective-C. Really liked the language and concepts, but lacking a framework for Objective-C on Linux. So I started ObjFW a few years later. Seems you had the same experience before I was even born, except on Amiga :).
Read stories from people who lived through the Great Depression - there was basically no wild game left.

It took decades for it to return.
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Chess AI LeelaChessZero Defeated in a Bullet Game by Andrew Tang
>Literally their entire Net Income increase from $5.4b to $9.4b is due to a tax cut from 20%

Hyperbole. Revenue is up $6.4B YoY from $24.75B to $31.1B.
Yes, and while we are at it. Can we make HTML JSON based, as well?

{
"head" : [...],
"body" : [ { "name" : "H1", "text" : "Hello JSON" },
... ]
}

So much easier on the eye. ; )
One could argue that France is one of multiple examples that demonstrate that the technical parts of the problem are already solved. If we actually wanted to (IMHO we don't), had the political decision to implement global interchange of health data, and had solved the political problems required to get the resources and will to implement it, then we could just copy and deploy the solution of France or Estonia or whatever, knowing that the technical and organizational structures are reasonably appropriate, and there's no need to suppose that something fundamentally technically different is needed, there are no obvious technical problems that need solving.
It's not just corporate rates. Doubling the standard deduction is the most reckless thing that has ever been done to our federal tax code for individuals. The fact that I am going to pay an effective 15% this year on a $100k salary is absolutely insane.
Everything you said is true, and I'm glad somebody pointed this out because I really wouldn't like this discussion to overshoot, like most discussions do, and get to the point where criticizing FB becomes the dumb thing to do.

This being said, I think you are touching all of the problems but missing most of them:

-Yes, it's about short term loops vs long term loops. This is not about control, it's about what is a good way for people to spend their time: it's been shown times and times again that engaging in long term activities has a great positive impact on your sense of fulfillement, and even if, sure, the whole internet is pretty dangerous in this sense, FB is definitely among the worst content suppliers out there, combining the addictive attention grabbing with mostly shallow and unchalleging content, i think.

-Yes, it's about centralization: democracy is great, and democracy works with as much plurality as possible. Sure, mass media have existed for a while now (radios have been crucially exploited by all sorts of dictatorships in 20th century btw), but it has never happened that such a large fraction of the attention time of a whole population was cotrolled by a single private organization. This is Obviuosly dangerous.

-Yes, it's about efficiency. Like other commenters pointed out, it's also about the sneaky way in which any content arrives to you just like it was directly from your friend, rather than from a recognised news or content outlet. This catches us hugely more off guard, to such an extent that we are not prepared to handle i think.

-Yes, it's also probably about the human relations between people- here's where i'm not actually sure it's making things worse, but it's definitely making things different, just like telephone or cellphones did. This is why we should at least be careful, expecially with children.

Yeah, of course humans will still be humans in the end, I mean come on. It's just about deciding what is best for us
On the one hand, I appreciate the desire to be protected, but on the other I think the most amazing thing advertising has convinced people of, is of the effectiveness of advertising itself.

Personally, I would prefer a fix to "hacking the electorate" stem from the required addition of information and transparency, rather than the setting up of mechanisms to regulate what is allowed to be seen, censorship. Adding information seems a much less prone to abuse than prohibiting information in a open democratic society.
How I focus (and live)
I did this in Hamburg (technically I bought a bottle, but I drank it before boarding, so I refilled it before flight). But in my limited experience, these fountains are not common in EU airports.
How the stock market cargo cult works.

We have already seen this with things like offshoring.

A few big name companies did the numbers and found they could save some on moving their production somewhere else.

Then came a rush of companies that made big that they had offshored who knows what, simply because that was what the stock market expected of a would be forward looking company.

The basic problem is that these decisions are not done based on what is good for the company long term, but what is good for the stock price short term. And in large part because CEOs are paid in stock options, and can be ousted by activist stock owners.
Campbell is tremendously overestimating how much extreme prepping actually increases your chances of survival. Keeping a week or two of food, water, and energy is smart, but "zombie prepping" is useless:

Revolutionary War: Unless they chose to fight, the "middle class" of independent farmers wasn't much affected (though I'll admit they were already zombie-prepped). The poor did the dying, and the elites got kicked out.

Civil War: Much more calamitous, but little that could be done about it. If you were displaced, your stocks of supplies were reduced to only what you could escape with. If you were killed violently, well, no point buying a gun when you'll be given one before sent charging into artillery fire.

Russia: See Civil War above. And just for fun, remember that having a large private store of grain wasn't exactly smiled upon during collectivization.

France: While farmers were undoubtedly more food-secure than their urban compatriots during occupation, those who cached guns and joined the Resistance weren't exactly making the safe choice.

China/North Korea/Vietnam: See Russia above

Africa: Is an entire continent, and reducing its 1.2 billion inhabitants to "where to begin" is incredibly insulting to their individual histories and experiences. But if we're talking colonialism, advising people to buy land is a bit out of touch, don't you think?
If you only had 10% of the cores, that hour would become a day, which is still pretty good.
Did you bow down at your laptop?

Is it ok to admire great engineers on HN?

Is this comment relevant to anything but your own inferiority complex?

Can we get a decent definition of hubris in here?
Sorry, no. RSS and Atom already does the job.

https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/standards.png
https://cloud.google.com/blog/big-data/2016/08/how-a-japanes...

I liked this example very much. A small family business of a handful of people used standard ML to automate their process of classifying cucumbers for their business.

Just imagine how many people we could free from manual labour to seek higher education if even only a fraction of family businesses had a use case like this and every one of those farmers or small shop owners who is bogged down by repetitive classification tasks could free up the time of a family member or two. That must be tens of millions if not more people on the whole planet.
I fear improper cleaning and food preparation.
In a forgotten town by the Salton Sea, newcomers build a bohemian dream
I believe that a population that is proficient with firearms does in fact strengthen civilization. My experience is that it almost always results in the person seeing the world in a different, more individualist, way.
Equity holders, by definition, have unlimited downside.
Eh, that's not true. I am sure some people did put their root passwords there, but no, passwords were only verified over phone and put into this shitty system called pipeline.

They did have some fiber go down, but it mostly caused a slowdown relying on the remaining fiber. Brain (in this thread) recalls how fast they scaled to having 10s of providers to avoid having such issues again.

You can reply and refute me, but I am not going to bother arguing with you any more than this -- I know how many days and hours I spent at this place, it was like home to me and I can trust that I am right on this.

To be honest, this place ran super smooth and was profitable while its sister The Planet was about to fail and miss pay roll when I think it was GI partners who bought them both up and at the same time had The Planet buy the profitable Ev1Servers for tax loopholes.

Yeah employed were paid shit, but they had all the opportunity in the world to better them self while having a very very very stable job. Many that I worked with there have gone on to hold 6 figure jobs in Houston elsewhere.
We're quite transparent about what we release and when - spikes can be easily attributed to events on https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Release_timeline if you are interested in what caused them!