skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe so; the author affiliation is the same as that Michael Jackson, and the paper references an earlier paper by that Michael Jackson.
>Much like Go gatekeeps generics to the language authors only

It would be more accurate simply to say that Go lacks generics. I don't know of many statically typed languages that have arrays but which don't allow you to type an array of integers differently from an array of strings. Go basically has that feature, plus built-in hashtables that are also type parametrizable. Characterizing that as some kind of huffy refusal to allow people other than the language authors to use generics is arguably inaccurate. Adding generics to Go would require fundamental changes to the type system, and would have some nasty interactions with interfaces. It's not a matter of flipping a switch.
Homemade Inverted Pendulum – Would ya look at that
To amplify the sentiment a little bit: the guy who invented winglets did so based on physical intuition, not calculation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_T._Whitcomb

He was such an intuitionist that AFAICS he apparently spent some of his last years on perpetual motion machines (i.e. some kind of quantum zero-point energy device.)

The idea that it's not OK to have spirited discussions about this, that the science should dictate who is right and who is wrong, is just inadequate to the problem. The design space for aircraft is huge, and almost any conceivable practical technique or configuration is going to be conventional, based on experience.
The framers of the US Constitution were well aware of this problem, which is one reason why they introduced features like separation of powers. (I.e., to create power centers that would compete with each other.)
> an avowed life-time commitment

That's everything what modern marriage today isn't. That's basically a religious view of marriage, which can freely exist, but has no legal binding at all, and whether divorce is ethical or not for one or some religions/"philosophies" is not necessarily universal.
Landauer Principle Stands Up to Quantum Test
To be fair, the school I went to was very particular, as it ran by the same university that ran the college I went to. In a way, a lot of the subjects we took early on were preparing us for college.
Unfortunately, knowing our luck it will barely be more than an AA/NA meeting, perhaps with random UA testing, that some contractor charges the government Passages Malibu rates for...
If I could downvote your comment I would because this is not an accurate synthesis of the article.

"more young, charismatic ivy league graduates" is not at all what the author describes. The author's thesis is that raising a Series A has requirements ranging between a Seed round which is based on, "the quality of the founders and the raw story that they can tell about their company and the future that company will create" and a Series B which is based on "[the] need to have accomplished a significant set of things that prove their ability to accomplish that future".
To be sure it can be overdone, but that doesn't detract from its utility and popularity.
Nadav,

"Dharma" is widely recognized as the term to denote the teachings of Buddha. I feel the use of the term in this new context is cultural misappropriation.

Would you care to address that concern with your thoughts on the topic?
Cloudtenna targets enterprise file search with DirectSearch
HyperApp has a great API, and for Web client code, size does matter.
Do you have any experience of how easy it is to add accessibility information or attributes when using style-elements? If it generates its own HTML and doesn't give you access to things like ARIA, that is a concern.
A Physical Deploy-Production Button – Marcus Young
Hulk-Smash Production – Marcus Young
Glad to see it's been resolved now!
True. But it's also a function of the upside for those companies. That is, price fixing has created a massive incentive / reward. The risk (e.g., 3rd rate lawyer's salary) is relatively low while the reward is now VERY high.

The gov grabbed a balloon and now that bubble is bursting, just in a different way.

Again. Not saying it's right. Only that it's really not a surprise. Not at all.
Countless hours saved. Countless discoveries made. Goodbye search.cpan.org.. It was a fun run.
Bitcoin as Explained by A.I
How NASA Will Unlock the Secrets of Quantum Mechanics Aboard the ISS
In that it acts as its own agent? That it has a...thing...that qualifies as a signature? I've never heard of such a thing.
How well has this code base aged? Will it be able to display today's HTML-heavy emails?
> Everyone is a criminal. You commit multiple crimes a day if you're like most people.

More importantly, pretty much everyone has a driver’s license or other government issued ID, and in most states, the police have access to your mugshot from that.

The criminality can be figured out later. The problem is real time surveillance of the entire population.
If you have a genuine product and want to secure a steady price for it, that's hedging not gambling.

If I want $2/kg for my beans, I can sell futures and "lock in" that price. If it falls to $1/kg, I'm still able to sell at $2/kg. (Conversely, if it rises to $4/kg, I still only get $2/kg.)

On the buyer/user side, Starbucks/Dunkin could buy futures so they also locked in a known price for the future. Whether the spot (instant market) price is $1 or $4 per kg, they may have locked in buying at $2/kg, essentially the opposite use case as the farmer/producer. (Southwest famously did this for jet fuel during the prior oil runup.)

Similarly, you can hedge weather and natural disasters if so inclined.
How Will the GDPR Affect Indian Startups?
Yup -- there are several. The most mature relayer project on Dharma we're aware of is Bloqboard (bloqboard.com), though I believe they are not ready to launch on mainnet quite yet.
How? You referenced #metoo, which is a movement in which people that have sufferent sexual attacks in various forms "come out" publicly. I can easily see how the gp comment interpreted that that way.
Can we make this a livestream with music?
Google, Alibaba Spar Over Timeline for 'Quantum Supremacy'
It seems eerily reminiscent of those terrible passages in the Gospel of Matthew, where Jesus warns of those of those who "shall not be forgiven", "either in this age or in the age to come".
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+12:22-3...
It's almost tempting to think that the author of that gospel knew about Mandaeism and put those passages in there specifically to discourage it.
Except the region they happen to live in is dealing with endemic homelessness, and they're directly contributing to it. Maybe they could try and mitigate some of their impacts.
Society would collapse if every company could pick which regulation they want to ignore. That is not how the law evolves. Protests, campaigns etc swings public opinion yes but not this.
Thank you for pointing this out -- I've flagged our team and we're looking into it.
Actually, none of these matter:

- PL/SQL is a horrible programming language. It consistently scores bad on e.g. stack overflow. I know about 4 non-oracle-DBA people who say something positive about it, and just about anybody else hates it with a passion. PL/SQL is a reason for lock-in when you have a few million lines of it, but that's about it.

- Graphical thing - nobody cares. An SQL database needs reasonable textual tools for the pros to do SQL editing. I would love an IPython for Oracle. But what you describe is tooling in the hand-holding, for dummies world. And I don't mean that negatively, we all started there and most people don't want to be IT-er just to solve their problem. But dummies is also a market segment where oracle is easily worst in class. I don't know why, but every oracle GUI seems inspired by that GoT Iron throne which cuts whoever tries to touch it.

- I worked with their Java and their C/C++ OCI driver. Both had crippling bugs, and caused serious migration issues or data corruption when upgrading oracle or even patching windows. The guys admitted some of them should have been documented in their migration guide, even if Oracle was internally aware of them. Yeah, thanks a lot.

- Integration with other stacks: Integration in the Microsoft world with mssql is a lot better if you want a good integrated stack. Integration within the oracle stack, there you might be right. And that stack is huge. But it is also very low-quality and hated by most of its users (oracle financials is an example where I never heard an end user tell anything remotely positive)

There are good reasons for using oracle. mulmen's post here above lists a few technical ones. It is very hard to make oracle lose data after successfull commit. There is also the management fallacy that oracle=enterprise class and open source=toy, and you can use that very well to sell your program by making it require oracle. So yeah, oracle has good sides. But please not these.
That's neat how you did a matrix in the comment!

But I think you want one of the sides to say "Important / Not Important", "Urgent / Not Urgent".

The Eisenhower Decision Matrix.

https://content.artofmanliness.com/uploads/2013/10/Eisenhowe...
Why not Preact?
If Mars had simply pulled itself up by its boostraps instead of wallowing in self-pity, it too could have been a giant. Especially as close to the asteroid belt as it is, there's really no excuse. Planets need to start taking responsibility for their failures instead of looking for handouts.
No, the organized labors wins are undone by creating this "sharing economy" where instead of employment you can be an "independent contractor".
Custom printing company
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Apparently Theranos wasn't above advertising their broken tech as a tool for Ebola response:

https://twitter.com/JeremyKonyndyk/status/998998156661706753
ARM Details Project Trillium MLP Architecture
Either one can be effective, it's a matter of sufficient pitch difference and increased volume.

Almost on topic, some residents of my former high-rise barracks liked playing their bass tracks blaring out the windows, which got my roommate and I thinking, if they have the bass, we can take the treble... and we got our competition bagpipe CDs out and cranked them up. We made our point. (And the barracks mangers shut us both up... )
One thing I don't get is why nobody ever points out that these are the kinds of planets we're finding because these are the kinds of planets we can find.

We'd have no way of identifying an earth-sized planet at an earth-sized distance from a sun-sized, star, as far as I know.

There could be a huge amount of exactly earth like planets out there that we have no way of finding. In fact -- all the sun-sized stars we've looked at that we can't find planets at all around, might be ones with solar systems just like our own.
Depends on the company. Google has a forward P/E of 24 and last quarter grew 26% yoy.

That is anything but expensive.
You can write a ray tracer in a weekend.

http://in1weekend.blogspot.com/2016/01/ray-tracing-in-one-we...

Improvements to commercial render engines today are often these days about adding new features and improving end user workflows. Here's last year's SIGGRAPH talk from Renderman.
https://youtu.be/iDUV4ISCklA

Commercial end users include digital art studios and other advanced users. In-house teams of specialists will use low-level APIs to achieve desired results. Render engines often more like a software development platform than a video game engine. The CG industry is constantly changing, these days a lot of effort seems to be aiming toward standardization and interchangeably as pipelines become more complex and software becomes increasingly specialized. (Zbrush, Maya, Mari, Houdini, Katana, Nuke.) A render engine will have to support several of these DCC packages and ensure artists get consistent results.

Render engine speed improvements still play an important role in development, but it's most noticeable in areas that are outside of the traditional "path tracing" parts. This is things like subsurface scattering (the red glow of a flashlight behind your fingers), volumetrics (smoke and steam), and caustics (shimmering light on the table when a water bottle sits in the sun). The "ray tracer in a weekend" parts are very thoroughly optimized, but you do see innovation now and again with developments in importance sampling methods. What you say is true in this sense: modern render engines are still just as CPU intensive as ever and you still need massive server farms to create final frames.

A more modern development is GPU-based render engines such as Redshift, Octane and Blender's Cycles. These engines are subject to the limitations of GPU memory - unlike a server where you could pop in a TB of RAM if necessary, GPU render engines are not currently able to handle extremely complex scenes like hero assets with tens of GB of textures, entire cities worth of geometry and so on.

This Unreal Engine feature is a slightly different world. This isn't a raytracer in the sense of what I've been describing above, what it's doing is adding a layer of reflective effects, computed with raytracing, on top of ordinary "game engine", where in theory you could add controls to manipulate the camera with your mouse and keyboard and look around.

To hit 30fps, the trick is adding just a little bit of reflection to improve the look, and setting up assets do that the approximated effect looks appealing and convincing. The machine they ran this on would cost nearly $100k, though the cost of creating professional assets specifically tuned for this specialized environment would rival that. However for an architecture studio trying to make a pitch showing a stunning interactive demo of their design, the economics are nearly there. And on a wider scale, this same technology could add extra pop to glass, metals, and liquids in next gen video games on a more modest gaming rig.
Lots of diets are odd. Plus it's just a coffee beverage, not soylent; it's not supposed to be your whole diet.

Personally, I prefer the taste of low-fat milk.
It looks like you are right about that--looking around, it appears that inflation adjusted price per square foot has remained relatively stable. However, a larger home with price/sq ft remaining the same results in a higher price.
Face recognition and plate scanning are orders of magnitude more complex than knives, which have been around for ~1,400,000 years. Kids can (and do) make knives with random material they find. Effectively 0% of adults can make face recognition or plate scanning systems.

Also laws do work in these scenarios: look at the difference between US and Israeli security practices and you'll see dramatically different laws in effect.
React is a ghetto, basicly + vdom has its own size.
IMO thing like hyperhtml or lit-html are the way forward - especially with new templating proposals.
Not to mention react is not interoperable really with other solutions - I'd expect webcomponents win long term, since they are built into clients.
Amazon in talks to buy Future Retail stake
Cool stuff. I'm disappointed to see that none of philosopher Dan Dennett's recent work [1] on this topic has come into these pages though. There's some overlap especially in the "thought experiment" realm, and it gets a rigorous philosophical treatment which for some is the key to this kind of problem-solving. (disclaimer: I was in the cohort of undergrads that Dennett used to review his chapters).

1: https://www.amazon.com/Intuition-Pumps-Other-Tools-Thinking/...
A quick perusal of the OpenVINO site (https://software.intel.com/en-us/openvino-toolkit) didn't turn up much evidence that there's anything particularly "open" about this. :-(
In comparison to rasterization, ray tracing does a perfectly good job of doing correct reflections.

However from a psychovisual standpoint correct reflections are the least important thing to look for. Just use a dedicated cube map for a scene and use environment mapping and focus on stuff that really matters and everybody immediately notices. Like high resolution textures, some proper anisotropic filtering and "HDR" lighting.
> It's not all uncommon for leaders of authoritarian movements to use the rhetorical association with different ideologies than their own as a promotional technique, as hinted at in the “Democratic” in the name of the former German Democratic Republic and the current Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

And both are based on a form of Socialism. The DDR was a satellite state of the Soviet Union and the DPRK is based around Juche, which also is a form of Socialism. Another example would be "The People's Republic of China" which makes it sound like China is a democracy (demos = people) while it is absolutely not.

Also the economic engine of Nazi Germany was centered around a planned economy for the common good (or at least, "the common good" according to the Party); an economic system which can only be found in Socialist countries.

> Nazism was an right-wing authoritarian populist movement much like Trumpism

False, because "Trumpism" doesn't want to end capitalism as Trump is a businessman himself who loves capitalism. Hitler hated capitalism and wanted to get rid of it. Also authoritarian? Since when did Trump dissolve nearly all civil liberties in the US, and made all political parties except the GOP illegal? Because Hitler did exactly that, right after the Reichtstag fire and the Enabling Act. Trump sometimes does some pretty awkward shit, but until now he didn't do ANYTHING closely resembling to what those people and freedom hating assholes in Nazi Germany did.
Be careful what they benchmark against. The Maxwell/Pascal GEMM routines are _very_ optimized, since Nervana Systems (in their infancy) made an assembler for them which they showed off/demonstrated by implementing GEMM (single-precision dense matrix*matrix multiplication). It was lacking like 2% from the theoretical performance, as predicted by the clockrate, but they had no idea why these 2% were missing. They hand-scheduled the instructions to get around the limited number of register banks, and the associated bank conflicts, a concept normal CPUs afaik only see with DRAM. At that time, the official GEMM, albeit hand-optimized, only reached like 80% of the theoretical value.
Show HN: The souvenir gift shop re-invented – create a custom memorabilia
Hi everyone,

Earlier this year we launched a "Hospitality Art" poster for Airbnb hosts. Thanks to the YC community, we got tones of constructive feedback, mostly asking us to expend the use cases.
We spent the last few months re-designing and rebuilding the product as a "gift shop" to help people celebrate special moments or trips : a romantic encounters, a honeymoon, a housewarming, an anniversary, an amazing trip etc... : A more personal, less boring travel souvenir/gift.

We would love to get your feedback on the new product

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It almost seems as if the natural pathway for any industry is to wind up under the control of money people almost the second unit economics are even perceived to be turning unfavorable. But this group of people is almost uniquely unmotivated to be responsive to public need.

Almost every day you hear stories in the news about the depredations of the financial industry ruining people's lives, half of the time completely unnecessarily. The LBO failures of Toys'R'Us and Clear Channel come to mind.

My intuition tells me that once they're perceived to be doomed, internal politics wrecks these businesses far more quickly than the market does. Nobody wants to even bother to save them, and so they go looking for a financial wizard (necromancer?) for salvation.

The lack of vision in corporate leadership these days is just really sad. Almost makes me long for the days of robber barons. At least they seemed motivated to save companies and actually work towards the future rather than just siphon off profits for yet another yacht.
Google indicates start testing in real world this summer.

Not sure why there is any doubt on it being real.

The voice aspect with wavenet already available in beta.
It tells us that a solo maintainer of a large project - with no assistance from the community possible, because closed source - trying to do it in his spare time, will eventually result in a massive accretion of technical debt.

It's a testament to Graham's productivity that he was able to keep maintaining it for so long in spite of those disadvantages, and says very little about perl.
This is a valid observation; however, we also need to consider that we write orders of magnitude more software in 2018 than we did in 1968. I don't think the defect / LOC (or whatever metric you want to use) has decreased. So while the cost per defect might be far lower, the total number of defects keeps increasing. The mitigation strategies that I've seen reduce costs mainly because they simply choose not to fix a lot of problems.
my phone is always in do not disturb mode
Wow.

I'm still thankful to that site for helping me find the incredibly useful SSH::Batch library. Whether you're using Perl or not, it's an incredibly helpful command line tool for simple operations on multiple machines.

Never would have found it without search.cpan.org.
Is there such thing as waiting too long to raise?
What kind of brew uses 8 grams? That’s a seriously weak or very small coffee. 20ish is a lot more civilised.

That price per kg is also not very reflective of what you pay for ok-good coffee if you are buying green beans from an importer. The current batch I have is sold to me from the importer who buys direct from the farmer.
How focusing on customers yielded 1MM new signups
Frankly, I'm super skeptical. Maybe I just don't get it, but it would seem to me that what Plaid is claiming to do is somewhat magical.

It just seems to me, likely another poster pointed out, is that they would have to partner with every single bank they want to deal with in order to send the right credentialing steps in order to access their internal systems, provided those systems even exist, OR, they would need to have access to a mythical overarching API that inherits to all systems (which doesn't exist). So somewhere in their platform there is a `Step 2) A miracle occurs`, and I just have a hard time believing that they can just gloss over noticing that before giving at least a motivation for the miracle. I mean if my money were at stake and I wanted to pay for the service (and my business' money would be at stake too!) I'd want at least a little bit of a guarantee that the service works as advertised and is totally above board.
Politics can be more effective at state and local levels. https://twitter.com/EFF/status/991734791081869312
Deregulation is the worse case in that sliding variable... an effectual government balances between the various parties, preventing corporate abuse of power at the expense of individuals.

When existing government gets hijacked by power brokers, that's where we the people should step up and say no by voting out the worst offenders. Tha's our check and balance, and where I despair of getting people to understand and care.
> Nobody cares if library is 1kb or 100kb (minified).

You do if your app needs to be mobile-friendly. 100kb can easily add an extra second or two to the page load on a bad enough mobile connection.
Because the advancement of technology changes the impact of certain classes of surveillance and tracking. Existing law is based on a balance that no longer exists. Bruce Schneier has a nice essay on this and license plates:

https://www.schneier.com/essays/archives/2007/01/on_police_s...

In short, having a unique id and database of car owners may be okay when the police need to manually look up information. But when they can have every plate in the city regularly scanned by robots and the data fed to an AI to look for patterns, that's not even close to the same thing.