skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is no need for a one-time pad. Any good stream cipher works just as well, same as for any other link. Message integrity is a fun question, since you don't want to spend the bits that you'd need for typical levels of security there; but that question is again independent of a one-time pad vs. normal crypto.

Jamming a licensed radio link vital to rich people who routinely deal with the government doesn't sound like a great idea to me.
gcc -O2, clang, and icc all produce the sequence:

is_even(int):
mov eax, edi
not eax
and eax, 1
ret

I am far from a x86 expert, but I assume this version avoids contention on the flags registers and increases pipelining.

edit: my mistake, icc and clang produce the equivalent sequence "not edi; and edi, 1; mov eax, edi; ret".
I see, are there second layer provides agregating multiple VoIP retailers? I thought VoIP route directly to the big telcos networks. But even in this case - just drop the whole 2nd layer provider and they will quickly deal with their spammer clients.
Is hard copy vs soft copy different than hard cover vs soft cover?
trust me some of the junk explanations for how deep learning works originate from researchers. we really just don't have a convincing picture about why these networks work or don't work in a theoretical way rather than empirical/heuristic handwaves
I really really like HP calculators. The only one I have now is the HP-35s, a new version of HP-35.

Once you go RPN, you can never go back! I have PCalc (another piece of amazing software) on my phone for RPN.

It feels really stupid for others to see that I can't operate a normal calculator.
IIRC, Express was actually originally based on Sinatra.

When I was doing a ruby server stuff I was using Sinatra and when I switched to JS (for various reasons) I looked specifically for Sinatra like libraries and found Express.
Remember that “quality” does not merely mean “works right now at this very moment”, but also should mean “is safe to build on and count on to still be there and developed in a reasonable direction for many years to come”.

There are many companies which should not get an ounce of that kind of trust, regardless of how useful their products are right now; very many simply can’t be trusted, for a myriad of different reasons.
Interesting question.

I dont own a raspberry pi, so no idea what hypervisors are available for you to use. I normally use KVM on centos7.

Quick google, and I only seen 1 hypervisor. http://xhypervisor.org

No idea what it can and cant do.
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I am always surprised that people analogize moonshot as the ultimate national effort opposite WWII.

Despite noir movies like Double Indemnity, which don't seem to show any effects at all, reading about it, it always seems that WWII effected practically every part of life down to the steel penny.

Whereas despite the "let them eat moonshot" quip from Asimov I haven't heard of great initiatives which didn't take place because of the space race.
I don't disagree with this assessment but I am encouraged how the current competition for launch capacity and capability over the last 16 years has done more to increase the US space capability than the previous 32 years.
"software development lifecycle always something that would take a long time to come to a completed state?"

Depends on the scale of the project, but yes. In fact, something like 70% of projects are over budget and late. FTA: "they rarely produce useful innovations that last beyond the event’s 36 hours"

"common knowledge then I think there is a bit of a misunderstanding by outsiders, where it appears as if the devs start and finish"

Im an insider, and that was my understanding.

"consider hackathons as the primary way of getting things done"

I wouldnt, but... The problem is there are internal hackathons, and public ones. Personally, I wouldnt see an internal hackathon as necessarily bad, as long as there was compensation/prizes, no pressure to participate(ie promises of promotion, or pressure to be part of the team), and the employees were given a few days before and after to rest. Still not sure I would use them. Sleep is important. I might do a regular, 40 hour week where we didnt work on the core product, everybody does what they want.

Public hackathons, are imo, a different beast. They are using the public to brainstorm, build prototypes, recruit, or market their product; for minimal costs. Sure there might be prizes, but the majority will go home empty handed, after 36-48 hours of free labor and donated ideas, with no sleep. I've seen a hackathon advertised that was just: "build our new product, maybe get a job". A friend of mine did a contract for that company, and he said they didn't even pay upon completion.

FTA:

"institutions use the allure of hackathons, with sponsors, prizes, snacks, and potential for career advancement, to get people to work for free"

"such events, in which employees may feel obligated to participate, are a form of labor control"

"everyone involved wanted something from the participants: Sponsors wanted to lay the groundwork for potential investments, hire the hackers, convince them to use particular software to build tools and apps, and boost their own reputations by offering cash, snacks and other prizes"
still okay with for some reason

Sometimes reality gets in the way of ideals. Men, for example, are pitifully bad at lactating.

Given initial conditions like that- things quickly fall into the familiar pattern.
Why does observing something mean that something is true?

If you keep asking questions, at some point you must get to either an accepted axiom, a circularity, or infinite regress.
It was apparently submitted by the author.
If you post a web page with some info for your business/project/whatever perhaps you can get more people interested because they may be sure that you get the technical capabilities.

Usually it's better to post a few interesting projects/blog post to build some credibility.
Thanks for SwissMicros link! Never heard of them.
Yes. Hard copy is printed (hard or soft cover); soft copy is electronic.
Ask HN: Product feature creep – have you succumbed? Or resisted?
At some point, every product creator starts thinking of new features to add to their project or service. (Sometimes, even before they've launched.)

It's very hard to resist adding new features, particularly if you compare yourself to a competitor with additional functionality or if your customers are asking for features.

What has been your experience with adding features to your product or project?

For new projects, has it delayed the launch of your product? Has it over-complicated your product? Has it diluted the core proposition of your product?

Or has adding features been a core part of your success? For example, attracting users away from similar products because of unique or additional features not found in your competitors?
So you completely ignored my questions, and simply repeated your previous comment word for word?

You provided some generic considerations, which don't apply to my situation, and I'm a fairly typical ML researcher. In fact, I know several startups doing DL research and they all have been buying hardware. Can you give me some examples where doing DL training in the cloud makes financial sense?

Also, you seem to imply that TPU is some kind of a miracle chip, even though we know very little about TPU2 and we know nothing about TPU3. It's actually pretty embarrassing that a general purpose V100 GPU is competitive with TPU2, which is an ASIC made for DL. If Nvidia ever decides to make a pure DL chip it will destroy anything Google can design. I mean, you can't be serious comparing Google to Nvidia when it comes to designing chips, right? That would be like believing that Nvidia could make a competitive search engine.
If you have T-Mobile, I recommend logging into your account and going to Profile > Privacy and Notifications > Advertising & Insights and disabling everything. Obviously, as a consumer I don't know exactly how this data is being collected, but if the the carriers are sharing individual level data, this is hopefully the opt-out.

EDIT: This is the text from one of the settings:
With your consent, T-Mobile, affiliates, and ad providers use your web browsing and app usage data along with advertising identifiers to deliver relevant mobile advertising and to learn more about your preferences. Advertising identifiers used can include Android and iOS Advertising IDs, browser mobile cookies, and device identifiers.
it's like bullshit, but smells worse
This comment is leaving me with some pause. Quite frankly, I didn't even know the name of the author, and would have stared at anyone blankly that said it. Still would, oddly.

I did enjoy his reading of his book. And I will admit that I found some of the ideas more compelling than I would have thought seeing them on paper. In particular, the religious overtones are somewhat offputting to me, on paper. Will see how I feel about them after a few day's reflection.

To the point of this post, however. If he his being pushed as a savior of some sort, I agree that is misguided. However, based on their merits, many of the arguments were compelling and I'm interested to see where they can be taken.

So, to that end, I'm not sure what the criticism "he's just cashing in" has to do offer here. What, exactly, are you accusing him of? Successfully presenting his arguments? Is that really such a bad thing?
> This outcome is in a particularly distorted badly operated market, one where for no very good reasons regulatory power is not being applied . . .

You described most energy markets on the planet.
DoD’s new electronic health system deemed ‘neither effective nor suitable’
I upvoted because I had a similar experience; however, your conclusion doesn't follow. Python's borked type checking doesn't mean optional type annotations are fundamentally not going to work out.

In particular, if Python added support for Go-like interfaces and recursive types, it wouldn't fall over for ~99% of nontrivial cases.
> updated stoic philosophy

No, it's not. Stoicism has much more depth and the Stoics would not agree with Peterson on many things. Stoicism also doesn't need to be updated.
Good thing that the media and their multiple layers of fact-checkers and editors didn't fall for the Russian's evil plan. They have learned a lot since the 30's and the Cold War.
Roosevelt saw the war coming because he wanted it to come and engineered a way for the US to be attacked (the US way of war has alway been to provoke and goad the other side into firing first [or outright faking such a provocation] then feigning moral outrage) and overcome these (sensible) sentiments. The "isolationist" strain of US diplomacy was part of its founding ethos and WW2 was responsible for obliterating it from the American identity. Was this really a good thing?
I think you got the user-written part the wrong way around. It is strongly typed because unless you define the operators/methods you explicitly want to enable, they don't exist. For example if you try "object() + object()", you get an exception. You can implement the addition in a subclass, but that's explicit then.

Compare to JS where "new Object() + new Object()" results in a string by default.
Zero emmissions

If nuclear has to include the costs of dismantling the plants, batteries have to include the cost of building them. And wind generators are massive aluminum structures, which are extremely costly to shape.

Some day, maybe. Let's be fair in the meantime.
Caused? No. It was one of the reasons they chose to do so, but that's not the same thing.

And why did we stop selling them steel? Because we didn't approve of them invading China and massacring people.
It's a nice contribution for the humanity, but I still don't believe that the 2.4M babies calculation is correct. Did his blood save the 2.4M babies or the blood of all the similar donors saved the 2.4M babies?

Also, how can he make so many donations? IIRC you can only donate blood every two month or something like that. Did they remove the plasma and return the red cells or they just made an exception because the rare condition and the good health?
Interesting article, I'm trying to figure out:

What are people trying to commoditize with Kubernetes. But even more importantly: How is this helping them? (since in my head the 'what' being commoditized is the same thing the big players contributing to Kubernetes make profits with)
Good question. Will have to see what happens as 5g becomes a reality.

A few years ago when WiMax was gonna be the 'next big thing' in wireless I remember a lot of people asking what we (WISPs) were gonna do cause it would put us all out of business. Two things happened: 1) We deployed WiMax gear for our customers. If WiMax succeeded we succeeded with it. 2) WiMax was terrible, we could provide much better service without it than with it. Currently many WISPs actually are deploying 4G-LTE equipment for their customers, and that actually works really well - so that's a good situation for WISPs and their customers. Yet to see what 5G will bring.
Another repository of crackmes and stuff for practicing reverse engineering
Ohio isn't lost at sea. We've got a pretty good tech scene.
It’s particularly bad in Australia and South Australia where this battery is was the worst.

Australia despite having abundant reserves of coal, gas and uranium as well as excellent solar and wind locations has some of their most expensive electricity prices in the world.
This is interesting. Though, for my part, rather than...

class Player {
playTurn(warrior) {
warrior.walk();

...
}
}

...I would much rather have something like...

import { Warrior } from '@warriorjs/cli';

class MyWarrior extends Warrior {
playTurn() {
this.walk();

...
}
}

...or...

function playTurn(warrior) {
warrior.walk();

...
}

The current style is a weird mix of functional and object-oriented handling.
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That's the ideal situation, but I'm often interacting with people that have trouble using Word, let alone Git! They don't even know what a VCS is.
I respect this viewpoint.

Having read this book many times, I have grown to appreciate it. Particularly because I try to approach it from a position of seeking understanding, rather than attempting any manipulation.

I managed lawyers, engineers, and scientists for many years. It is not easy, but it was worth it. And this book helped.

I would rather read a great book 10 times, than 10 average books.

Here is a one page summary:

http://www.csus.edu/indiv/l/luenemannu/pdf/communicationprin...

This Dale Carnegie book is available in all public libraries and even online.
All of these ads shared one thing in common... They appealed to ignorance and the uneducated across every demographic, and it worked.
Inside a Powerful Silicon Valley Charity, a Toxic Culture Festered
Does anybody have a source that isn't a gore site?

With that said: Do not visit the root domain if you don't like seeing lots of mutilated dead people.
I’m sincerely at a loss for how most/many of these could have influenced the election. Part of me think that Congress is making mistakes and Putin is scrolling through these, laughing hysterically that we actually think he’d pay for this nonsense.
I think you have to look at how you are naming your functions.
Very interesting, but fantastic genetic traits like precognition and ancestral memories are (in fiction) a traditional good fit for the Mendelian inheritance pattern of few and high impact mutations.
This image from their website is one of the sexiest product photos I've ever seen:

https://www.swissmicros.com/photos_feb2016/kuble/DM15_credit...
Would be great if FB released the audience targeting data associated with these images. Context and audience matters when it comes to advertising.
Inside the python virtual machine
It can be, although I think the root cause is simply the 6-round sudden-death interviews. Social conformity is a major factor there no matter how you slice it.
Youtube autoplay is quite easy to turn off, fwiw.
I work from home 1-3 days a week. I'm also father of 3 boys (2, 8, 10) and wife is working full-time.

My only setup is my ThinkPad T450s. That's all.

At some point in my carrier I used 4 monitors, specific low profile keyboards and mice at the office but I don't miss that. It took some time (years!) to adjust my workflow to a single screen and maybe I'm not as productive as I could be but I'm still among the most productive employees at my company.

What I achieved is that I'm equally productive and +/- comfortable anywhere: at work, on the couch or office room at home, on a train, at airport, in the garden, anywhere. That consistency is more important to me than maximum efficiency.

So that and I choose what kind of tasks I work on when I'm alone or when family is at home because you can't expect to fully isolate yourself.
The Manhattan Project alone is close to the scale of the moonshot, and the US was devoting so many resources to the war that virtually no one even noticed that the Manhattan Project was happening. Not even Vice President Truman knew about it until after FDR’s death.
Looking at the code you could do getCharacter() for a Space returned by look()/listen()/feel() to figure out what type of enemy it is: https://github.com/olistic/warriorjs/blob/master/packages/wa...
Actually I went the other way around.

The performance problems dealing with Tcl on a 2000 startup made me never ever again use programming language without JIT/AOT support for production code.

To this day, Java, .NET and C++ stacks are my daily tools.
It is so obnoxious when a website immediately asks to send you notifications.
1) who cares? And,

2) what could they possibly go about it?
So, a pedestrian makes an unexpected move where you have priority, the pedestrian falls and needs lengthy recovery.

Then by default you are liable for all of the pedestrian's costs, even if it was not your fault. No ifs. Just any damage that results from the accident.
BS.

I can't produce milk but I can do everything else. So in the middle of the night when the breast is done if baby is unsettled I can take care of this, which can take ages.

Sharing this exhausting and sometimes excruciating workload is a big part of parenthood here. It is also ultimately highly rewarding; editing this as she's just about fallen asleep in my arms, gorgeous thing.
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/grand-jury-indicts-thirteen-r...

> The Russians also recruited and paid real Americans to engage in political activities, promote political campaigns, and stage political rallies. The defendants and their co-conspirators pretended to be grassroots activists. According to the indictment, the Americans did not know that they were communicating with Russians.
That was anti-climatic. How exactly did these ads sway the election? In fact, many of them are pro-gay and have liberal idea.
> Static typing is extremely useful for knowing what things return - names are not.

Only if you completely ignore convention (that is prefixes return bools) then, sure, it's not useful. But if you just want to break conventions, then all of this is moot because you are guaranteed to do stupid stuff outside of that.
Not to the point where it costs $14,000 per MW. At that pricepoint hiring humans to hand crank generators is not the laughably ridiculous proposition it should be.
The DNT header reminds me of evil bit RFC [0]. It was funny back then, but times change I guess.

[0] https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3514.txt
So it’s a “victory” that people in the EU are unable to decide for themselves if they want to use Unroll Me?

Who made you the arbiter of what’s good for people?
But at the end of the day, I wouldn’t call it a categorical improvement over C because you still have to drop down to what is basically C to handle essential tasks like declaring circular data structures. Instead, it makes a special (but common) case of tree-like data structures safer to handle. This is no fault of Rust—it is a theoretical limitation. There is no single model that let’s you express arbitrary data structures, gives you memory safety, and doesn’t require runtime heap walking.
I write Python in my day job and I _always_ start with types. I find they make even prototype code so much easier to reason about. It's just nice to be able to tell at a glance what a function returns, what args it takes, etc., and I don't have to master Sphinx's cryptic syntax (which I still haven't managed after using it for 5 years). And I experience this benefit even for code that I wrote yesterday without even running the type checker. And it's only going to get better with editor integration.

Without types, if I have the code `a = foo(x=1)` then I have to hunt down the source file for `foo()`, which likely just returns `bar(x)`, so I have to hunt down the source file for `bar()` to figure out what the hell its return type is, and so on and so forth. With types, I just look at the type signature for `foo()` and I'm good to go (and again, editor integration means that I don't even need to look up `foo()` at all!).

YMMV.
> multiple layers of fact-checkers

Not sure if you are being sarcastic or not. One of the worst things to come from modern media is that editors do not fact check because they want to break the story before anyone else and fact checking takes time.

This has lead to tons of quiet retractions.
Huh, I’ve never heard “soft copy” used for that before—I’ve always used electronic copy or digital copy. TIL.
> Wait, what? Carriers are selling personally identifiable location information? I knew they were selling aggregate data, but how are they legally selling location numbers tied to actual phone numbers?

I tried the demo (https://www.locationsmart.com/try/) and it indeed works. The location given is about 200 meters away from my location. This is kinda scary? Why are carriers allowed to do this and are there any opt-out options?
The only Cl implementations worth using are those with roots in the real CL.
imho.
I'd be happy to be corrected on this, but the documentation seems a bit... bare? I've used mypy, and I'm interested in types more complicated than `foo() -> int`. I'd like to see how pyre handles generic stuff, unions etc... Maybe that's all rolled into "we support PEP X", but it'd be nice to see some examples.

(I might have somehow missed the full docs - in that case, if anyone has a link, I'd be grateful.)
Yeah, the ads were just the content they paid for. This doesn't take into account all the sockpuppet accounts on Facebook, Twitter and Reddit that were designed to swing conversations in the direction they wanted them to go.

Also, link aggregator sites (like our very own HN) are susceptible to vote manipulation, which can promote the content the attackers want, and demote the content they don't want.

These ads were just to rope people in. You can see that "Black Matters" has 200k+ members. Those are people who are now getting information directly from the Kremlin on their feeds now.
Eh, of course these aren't even supposed to directly champion one or the other. Their point is clearly to amplify the existing "us vs. them" mentality, make people even more entrenched, and to encourage the thinking on both sides that the other side is out to get them. Classic divide and conquer.
Yikes, thanks for the warning. Almost visited the page at work.
No idea why this got posted here but I should point out that Mary Beard is well respected around these parts and is a mother. The TLS is not generally considered a rag either.

Now, the article itself does start off with a pretty confrontational style. I humbly suggest you get over it.
You’re right, we should have just let Germany, Japan, and maybe Stalinist Russia split up the rest of the world between themselves. That definitely would have worked out fine and they never would have bothered us. Hitler’s not so bad once you get to know him...