skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You have a warped perspective of importance if you think giving the nod to a new mail app is some holy thing.

You're taking a needlessly confrontational stance here with insulting language, and people are responding to that.
I started after the dot.com crash in 2001/2002 when work was hard to find.

It sounds like a dream job, but actually, it's not. You start to tire of a sport you loved, and each morning you wake up with a pile of cash that you want to make a few percent bigger by the end of the day.

You're not adding anything to society, you have no colleagues, there's little to talk about with friends and family, and most people think you're a lazy bum.

Slowly your life becomes consumed - I was doing 16-17 hour days just moving money around and trading - your diet turns to crap and you start to resent what you're doing.

It's at that point you are vulnerable to "breaking the rules" and chasing losses, over-betting or doing other stupid things. Back then I did not have the resources to automate my strategies, so I lost £5k in 2-3 days about 9 months in and thought "time to get a proper job before I do some serious damage", and got back to working for a living.

I have since then automated many of my strategies and it's my favourite hobby, but I am under-capitalised and not interested in using other people's money: it will remain a hobby for some time yet, but I can get 10% RoI a month for some strategies, which definitely beats savings. Just need to wait for the bank to grow, and grow and grow... Maybe one day I will be a "professional gambler" again, but really it's just data science and software engineering for a very strange product.
It'd be great if it could be done using IP multicast! Sadly over the Internet to consumer devices multicast isn't an option, sometimes it is within a particular ISP for their services, but from an arbitrary broadcaster to a receiver it's all unicast (and often pull-based using HLS or DASH)
I always thought the only way downvotes buttons should be implemented is that they're non-functional, in that they do nothing other than let a user take an action; you could perhaps then influence what that specific user sees in the future, to help get an idea of their tastes, or instead not actually affecting where a comment or post shows up in an order.
Facebook May Have Secret Plans to Build a Satellite-Based Internet
Always a good reminder but by that definition it seems insanely broad and also poorly named. I think I'll park my use of it.
Oslo is still planning to go car-free by 2019, implements bike lanes
Good list, on that topic of travel I would expand it for "adventure". You can have adventure discovering new part of your county/country, or even your own town. One can try some 'extreme' sports - ie parachute-related, climbing, diving, whatever is nearby you. Pick locally. Try and decide if you once would like to be a proficient in that activity and would enjoy it.

One can travel far for adventures, or ride a bike to them - do both!
There's nothing like writing up an Evernote or Wiki article on some feature, process, or how/why something works... and then nobody on the team ever reading.

I love writing documentation from time to time. But this helps by getting you to write documentation for only things people are asking about.
Weakmap vs. symbol properties
Actually, I didn't realize that broadcast was done with IP multicast. I was thinking it used a separate, older technology. So does that mean that generally speaking, modern ISP's that bundle Internet + Cable push the cable content over the IP transport using multicast in the layer 2 DOCSIS network?
Airway Obstruction Caused by Substernal Thyrotoxic Multinodular Goiter
Mathematical structures are hypothetical, e.g. given a structure that is a group, here's a book full of properties it will have.

To get concrete, if our universe happens to be finite (which I suspect is true), a lot of mathematics doesn't describe anything that exists within this universe.
Cambridge Analytica Moves Staff and Resources to New Company, Emerdata
35 U.S.C. § 102 sets the standards for patentability. Interestingly, the relevant standards are simply statements about the condition of the world:

unless— (1) the claimed invention was patented, described in a printed publication, or in public use, on sale, or otherwise available to the public before the effective filing date of the claimed invention

Patent applicants are expected to conduct prior art reviews and attempt to determine novelty, but this is done defensively - for the purposes of not wasting money on an obvious failure, or to head off anticipated claims of prior art by justifying the novel feature.

Meanwhile the patent office is expected to search for prior art and issue a rejection if found. To aid in this, there are also mechanisms for interested outsiders to contact the USPTO with evidence for rejecting a patent. Finally, someone who finds themselves infringing on a patent can file for review of the patent - this is the intended mechanism to ensure that people don't have to constantly watch for all patent applications which might harm them.

In practice, the USPTO is fairly good at rejecting things which have already been patented, or are obvious to a layman. But they often miss domain-specific developments which are either obvious to professionals (many software patents) or entered the market without being patented (apparently, this mid-door design). The ex parte re-examination system seems to have been gaining some teeth lately, but isn't sufficiently reliable to prevent patent trolling.
Remind yourself that while they're really good at something, you can certainly beat them in something else. No one is perfect and we all have or strengths and weaknesses. It never fails me!
> (1) who had ever heard of 'Nikola' before this

Previous discussion of Nikola on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11683508

I think most people who follow electric vehicles at all seriously have heard of them.
All 3 are design patents, which are patents on non-functional ornamental design of functional items. They aren't patenting side doors, they are patenting the way the side doors look.
Systems That Control Water, Power Plants Are Shockingly to Hackers, Study Finds
Why Machine Learning Needs Benchmarks – SIGARCH
I've talked to finance shops (I live in London, so there are plenty about), but they worry about my lack of formal mathematical training and of course they don't want to hire "gamblers". I've got some calls with a few people lined up that might mean I get to make the jump at some point in the next few months.

I am enjoying it being a hobby right now, and I seem to be more comfortable calculating and assessing risk and pay-off than others which can be useful in an engineering team with an operations component.

So it's helped, but it's not my job, no.
Maybe the company needs a positive consent policy, only persons who respond "going" will be assumed to be present?
Green UX: Is your UI harming the environment?
DPDK is a very recent thing...
Let's not get into the usual culture wars here. My comment was meant as a joke. My apologies if it offended anyone. Live and let live.
It's essentially the difference between circuit switching (dedicating a whole physical link to a particular signal) and packet switching (breaking it down into smaller chunks that can each be dealt with independently throughout a network, and then get reassembled on the other end). The former is easier to do (no overhead of disassembling/reassembling) but less flexible.
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UBTECH Robotics Gets $820M Funding
There needs to be a better, not-for-profit model where a failed compound doesn't matter as much

Phase II/III clinical testing is expensive, and the failure rate (i.e. low efficacy, compound simply doesn't perform as expected, and certainly no better than what's already at market) is high. That's what it is, there isn't much that can be done at that front.

Thankfully a few months ago Goldman Sachs directly addressed the elephant in the room: pharma yields bad returns, investment in pharma is inadvisable. There needs to be a different financing model, perhaps from the public purse.
Up! It's ugly. I got it too.
Future sailors: what will ships look like in 30 years?
I don’t know, I have the same question for Floridians every summer..

Why don’t they just move!

But seriously I think that’s why it’s called settling. Ok I’m tired of moving I’m going to stop here and build a life and that’s it. And then they actively ignore any evidence it’s a bad decision. I’m guessing people of yore were similar.
Personally, I definitely worked longer hours when I was younger, and was generally more available on weekends, evenings, etc. Now, I'm substantially more productive during the hours I do work. Overall, I'd say my output has increased and improved in quality, but ad hoc, after hours requests (nights, weekends when I'd have dropped what I'm doing to take care of them) take longer.
It would be nice to have some guides for mitigating the risk.
>> For an infinite universe or multiverse with infinite mass, you'd need infinite energy, right?

Except that under some theories the net energy in our universe is actually zero. Antimatter+matter = nothing. So the concept of unlimited energy can be acceptable under the rubric that energy in one area is mirrored by anti-energy in another.
Would really like to see a lock-free variant of this... Anyone can provide pointers to a lock-free implementation, preferrably in C or C++?
> it's really hard to see how they can be stopped.

I don't think they can "be stopped" - at least not by competitors, as long as they maintain their overall strategy of expanding their marketshare by cutting margins below what their competitors can bear.

In my opinion, this is the way it should be. If a monopoly exists that is more efficient than a competitor can be, then it deserves to exist and its existence benefits consumers. On the other hand, if a monopoly becomes abusive then it will be destroyed very quickly by others who will be more than happy to undercut them.

Amazon (and all monopolies) will fail much more quickly than might be apparent at first glance if they abuse their position. "Bigger" does not always mean "stronger".
We can only comprehend matter that affects only the five senses that we use to perceive "the universe".

What if there's a kind of matter that cannot be perceived by the five senses that we use, and does not interact in any way with the matter that can be sensed?

Could we consider each of these kinds of matter to belong to another universe?
How you can patent the shape of a fuselage is nuts, when it should be easy to show prior art for wind tunnel work by others going back to the early 1950s.
i applaud your nerve. the audacity of billing. i wish i felt more confident about that. that's great.

i feel that it's easier to bill for something like time spent learning the customer's unique (-ly confusing) data model, or for figuring out the product's requirements (since the company has little to no documentation of that).

OTOH, i feel less confident charging for time i spend learning about the vagaries and unexpected behavior of the android platform since "i'm supposed to know that" (and also since those problems are the android platform's responsibility)

i find the balance hard to strike sometimes. i compromise a lot.
Discourse has tags, tailored search, badges, closing, and with this you can mark the right answer.

But you can’t have voting up and cute Q&A related badges, true. And reputation is also tricky.

But for many people, being able to own their own database for free will trump those things.
Indeed, in my case I didn't need arbitrary precision, just extending uint64 to uint128, uint256, uint512, ... Fixed size are perfectly fine for a variety of use cases, can be stack-allocated and are much faster due to the specialization.
We are all still programming. The ratio of young engineers to old engineers can be completely attributed to growth in the field. The number of engineers doubles every five years. So, it should come as no surprise that less than 25% of engineers are over 30. Once you get to 40+, it drops to 6%. Again, not surprising given a 5 year doubling time.

Uncle Bob blogged about this in 2014. http://blog.cleancoder.com/uncle-bob/2014/06/20/MyLawn.html
Well-fed, well-clothed exothermic humans do just fine so long as they're staying dry - air doesn't conduct heat the way water does, even if it's adjacent to water.
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Wow, this is fantastic! I feel like Impact never got the attention it deserved: at the time of release it was miles above the rest of the 2D pack, and the author was brave/crazy enough to charge money for it (which obviously hindered greater uptake, compared to Phaser - but it showed he was serious about it as a real product). The editor it came with was fantastic - and there still isn't a lot of movement in this area for other game libraries (I think Phaser has a third-party paid effort that is shaping up)

Then he released Ejecta as open source, which was a real game game-changer for me: 60FPS canvas games running on my old iPHone 3G - it was FANTASTIC!

I would have given up on tinkering with HTML5 games along time ago if it wasn't for Dominic, so, if you happen to read this, thank you for all your effort!
I wish I had learned the difference between need and want when choosing a service to create. You can make a profitable businesses providing what people want for sure. But it's much better to be in the business of providing what people need more.

If I had learned that earlier it could of saved me years of hard work over something that turned out to be a dud.
Working with Mellanox cards for a few weeks; the MTU matters a lot. The difference between an iperf test measuring 14 Gbits/s on MTU 1500 vs. 40 Gbits/s on MTU 9000.

We got a couple of Connect-X5 cards, which allow switchless connections, akin to a ring topology. A lot of neat things, at just stupid line speeds, and latency levels I haven't seen in software, ever.
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I think the win would be in making the answers more findable. Confluence is great for writing documents and laying out pages in a hierarchy, but full-text search is still very hit and miss. Especially when you have 50 projects that all have the same keywords and 49 of them are irrelevant.
> This is Amazon's problem to solve and a core challenge of running an open marketplace. Let them deal with it.

If they don't solve it someone else will, and that someone else will destroy the perceived monopoly of Amazon. Alternatively Amazon will acquire them... in which case, Amazon will have solved it :)
Yeah, there is no question about it. This website clearly says that it's the legit source for 7zip. There is even a red box on the right side of the page. This needs to be taken down if this is not an official source.

The left side has a navigation to different translations of the page.
All but the English version link to the German page as well.

I'm guessing it was once part of the build pipeline but has since been abandoned.

So yeah, it is an official source. It's just outdated
> But maybe I am just unaware. Can you provide some breakthroughs from Nvidia? Maybe I am just unaware?

You must be joking. I've only been pointing you repeatedly to Nvidia breakthroughs, with references and links provided, for the last 5 posts. Either you are blind, or willfully ignorant.

More self-driving accidents are only going to accelerate the pace. 3 years from now the government will be requiring auto makers to use the Drive Constellation [1] for safety testing.

Google has nothing remotely comparable, neither in published research nor in announced products.

We've gone through something like 8 replies and thousands of words, and you have written exactly one sentence addressing Nvidia's developments.

> The joules per inference is just way too expensive with Nvidia.

The Drive Xavier is basically a giant inferencing engine on a power-constrained platform [2]. It will be shipping in quantity in 2019. There is no equivalent Google product even announced.

> Now has over 98k stars on GitHub.

The fact that you are resorting to GitHub stars to make your argument is utterly laughable.

CUDA and cuDNN is the real enabler, which every single DL framework today (including TF) supports. People trust Nvidia far more than they trust Google to be an ecosystem partner.

> Unless Nvidia makes major advancement

Looked through your social media posts, half of them are pro-Google fanboism.

Nvidia's makes major advancements every 6 months across the entire deep learning stack. I keep pointing you towards what they're doing, hoping you have something interesting to say, but all you have to offer is the same tired Google cheerleading.

Look, I'm a long-time investor in both companies and like them both very much. But it's quite obvious you have zero interest in doing even a smidgen of research about Nvidia nor their technology.

Anyway, thanks for the replies, but I'm no longer interested in continuing this convo. You don't seem to know anything relevant at all about Nvidia, nor are you interested in learning more, despite all attempt to point you towards interesting things that they're doing, and why their approach is unique.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVlqggTiTzY

[2] https://www.engadget.com/2018/01/07/nvidia-xavier-soc-self-d...
Interestingly enough, Dakota State University in Madison, SD has a consistently very highly-ranked cybersecurity program.
For those not aware, this chat log is attributed to Zuckerberg:

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Mossad Ran a Fake Diving Resort for Tourists in Sudan to Save Ethiopian Jews
The idea of mental multi-tasking as a productivity killer makes me wonder if people with ADHD would function better in a team lead role (eg: they have to go to All The Meetings) rather than a role where locking down and focusing for 12 hours at a time is needed. I have enough ADHD that I appreciate the interruption of flow that meetings allow me... or am I just weird?
So the biggest reason why I can see this succeeding is because of onboarding. In fact, I'd say that's the killer feature. It takes one person going through a development environment setup process to be really useful. They'll ask a lot of questions, get the answers...and then the setup process is suddenly really well documented without anyone having to go through the trouble of documenting it without knowing what to document.

Since new employees are expected to ask questions on how to get things working, using SO for Teams is natural. Then, explanations that would normally be sent in pieces over IM can be recorded.

The information still ages, but aged information on the right track is infinitely better than nothing at all.
Ask HN: WaveNet Text-to-Speech app/plugin?
Has anyone seen or is anyone working on a text to speech app or plugin using Deepmind[1]? This is something I would actively pay a subscription for and googling around yielded nothing obvious.
[1]https://cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/
I would guess cable video is multicasted once to many customers while online streaming has to be served one-to-one.

From the viewer's standpoint, the bandwidth usage is roughly the same, but the broadcaster and CDNs have a lot more data to deliver.
It's funny you refute that forum add-on, as it is a good add-on, but it's also just an add-on. A band-aid, not a solution. Too often I see the selected answer "pulled up" to the top, but it's actually just the tail-end of a longer conversation, where the context of the conversation is critical to understanding the answer itself. Not to mention that comment responses (to both answers and the question itself) are interwoven together like a big bowl of spaghetti.

Meanwhile, I think StackOverflow, while great, is not living up to it's potential. I'm currently brainstorming/prototyping a StackOverflow alternative that covers the Q&A scenario, but adds support for more advanced features. If a question is opinion based, then you could have answers categorized into sides. Yes or No would be a common example. React vs VueJS vs Ember could be some side options in a question. OOP vs FP vs Procedural could be sides for another question. What is the right way to X can have a different answer depending on your "side", or it could be that the sides themselves are in disagreement. Sometimes it's nice to see and understand why another side prefers X. Let both side's top answers stand side by side at the top. Another idea is improved connecting of similar, but unmergable, questions. Another idea to connect questions by dependencies. A user could select some premises before asking, debates could be derailed less often by linking debunked arguements to their open debate page where there could be a large chain of custody on each element and nested prerequisite showing why it's wrong. Prerequisite could also be a word definition ("theory" is a random shower thought in some contexts, but in other contexts it's an explanation backed by so much evidence it's a strong candidate for established fact that could only be replaced by an expanded explaination, not an alternative one). Prerequisites could also be an axiom. In addition to questions, there could also be "claims". "Answers" to claims would basically be supporting evidence or refuting evidence.
Even if they read, it gets old really fast usually and who have to update it? You. So now you have two problems :)
I think you missed the cross-platform part of my answer.
What would be the overhead for just something "simple" though? Like making HIV airborne? (Or rather what the lay person perceives as a small change)

It seems like there are plenty of diseases out there where a (apparently) "small" modification could have a dramatic effect on how it spreads. And I'll admit my naivety to the subject and do not know if such small changes are actually small, or the related overhead associated with them.
I don't agree with any of that.

One big practical reason the archive requires special access is that 1200 year old paper documents are fragile and require special handling to read. If the Vatican allowed everybody to come in and finger through them, they would be easily damaged.

Furthermore, I suspect required travel to Rome has prevented a lot of people from using the archives.

> But they, the people long trained to make use of delicate ancient document, are dismissed as some sort of backwards tribe that are not fit to be labelled "modern scholars".

I don't see anybody here making that claim, and I don't know what it has to do with the Vatican archives.
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