skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I meant the scale range when considering the constituent components of any given biological organism:

Let's say we take the hardware basis -- cpu, instruction sets, registers, buses, etc. -- as the 'organic chemistry' analogue -- the substrate. Just the basic cell, which is a profoundly amazing machine, would require layer upon layer of software. By the time we reach the level of an 'organ' or 'system' along the biological model, it would be a monster.

We humans, for example, have apparently (per my search engine) somewhere between 10^13 to 10^14 cells. That's 4 to 5 orders of magnitude larger than the total number of computers on this planet.
No, it says that for the present valuation to be fair, then all those conditions must be true. But if all those conditions were true, then Tesla would control at least a quarter of the global automotive market, and its valuation would be considerably higher.

Obviously not all of those conditions will be true, however -- only the craziest Tesla bulls would argue that. Conversely, if none of them are true, then Tesla is definitely over-valued. But I think you'd have to be a pretty crazy Tesla bear to make that argument. Finally, if those conditionals are a mix of true and false... well, that doesn't really doesn't tell you much about Tesla's fair market value, which is why I don't think this is a particularly useful analysis.
The diagnostic criteria for mild dementia are significant cognitive impairment that interferes with activities of everyday living. There are plenty of people still living at home with a caregiver/spouse, and people living at home on their own that meet these criteria.
You'll be happy to hear that almost half of the rental units in NYC are rent-regulated, and that the stabilized rents are not that much lower than the market rents. http://furmancenter.org/files/publications/HVS_Rent_Stabiliz...
I've been using this as my launcher for the last few weeks, it's actually pretty good at what it advertises to do. This mixed with a blocking app, greyscale and the Messenger Lite have made my device a semi-smart. The last page of the launcher randomizes everytime you swipe over to it so that's super handy. Notifs every 20 minutes has literally changed how I use my device allowing me to balance group chats vs constant attachment to my phone.

Devs: Please, please, please add some theming support it's ugly as sin, maybe regex style controls over which notifs get through on a per-app basis.
> The Reflections GDC demo ran on a DGX Station equipped with four Volta GPUs using NVIDIA RTX technology. For now, you will need similar horsepower to leverage real-time ray tracing. In the future, we can rely on Moore’s law to bring down the cost and complexity of how this technology is packaged and delivered.

While GPUs are getting the full benefits of Dennard Scaling, much more so than Intel CPUs a la Goordon Moore, everyone is feeling the process pain of 10nm, 7nm, and beyond.

It stands to reason that the major advances in real time ray tracing will be evenly split between more efficient designs and smaller transistor sizes.

It seems foolish in 2018 to "rely on Moore's law" to bring a 4 x Volta GPU requirement to something more palatable for the mass market.
When to try to raise a series A round? When you BOTH need the money to ramp up your work AND you are ready to take on investors who want at least a tenfold return on their investment.

Generally your series A investors will, between them, hold a majority of shares in your company. If you have enough leverage to retain a majority share for the founders and employees, you're probably already funding at least part of your work from revenue. In that case you may not desperately need the investment.

Before you raise a series A round, be sure you understand the meaning of "Participating Preferred Shares."

Don't celebrate getting a series A round by using some of it to buy fine wine (unless you're in the wine business). You wouldn't celebrate getting a payday loan either.
That’s a really good question. I guess one of the options would be to require social media companies to obtain a licence, subject to their non-monopolistic activities.

My guess is that there will be a FB sell-off today. Other countries will see the opportunity to raise a high tax rate on a natural monopoly, and FB returns will be tax-adjusted.
It's a matter of "balance". Get a right wing writer, left wing writer, diversity writer, business writer and so on. Brooks is the "reasonable" right wing guy.

I would be fine if they cancelled all opinion pieces and just reported news but I don't think that would sell.
Rate my writeup: Hot fixing a CDN for an online game
http://mcs.open.ac.uk/mj665/
re: "“Amazon Rekognition is primed for abuse in the hands of governments,”"

Govs? Big Incs? Deep Pockets? Can any of them be trusted?

What used to be known as "local law enforcement" is now a heavily armed para-military organization that dreams technology wet dreams. Its vendors dream of drowning in cash.

The din of fear is taking its toll. The expectation of unlawfulness is becoming self-fulfilling. The kids are not alright, as the normalization of school shootings shows.

I'm not going to defend the NRA, but they are the least of my worry at this point.
Do a search for a product and Amazon is #1 or #2 result and chief competitor of Google and will not allow Google products to be sold by anyone on their market place.

This entire thing is ridiculous. Google is obviously not gaming results.

Yelp sucks so lower down. Make it better and be higher like Amazon.
Securing Dependencies for Rails 5.2 Active Storage
yeah no doubt amazon is becoming largest marketplace around the world
Just my opinion, but I don’t think VR - especially mobile VR - is mature enough yet to support “good games”.

Maybe in a couple of years it will be. If you believe that, then yeah, now is the time to be building your skills and user base. I don’t think you’re going to hit it big just yet though.
Compare to polyhedral optimization [0], supported in GCC via Graphite [1] and in LLVM via Polly [2].
These have a lower ceiling than hand-optimized assembler, but they automate the tuning of how to nest the loops for maximum benefits due to the cache hierarchy. Considering their ability to do so for general purpose number crunching loops, they are rather nice, but there is still some integration work needed, especially for LLVM, as lack a nice place in the existing optimization pipeline.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polytope_model
[1]: https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/Graphite
[2]: https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/Graphite
Wrong. They weren't biases I had going in.
Since metacpan.org has been around, I've always hated search.cpan.org.

Case in point, at a previous employer, a contractor was tasked with integrating Jira with an existing hacked together monitoring system in order to 'automatically' create trouble tickets. Not hard to do, but the problem is he just googled 'perl soap' (since the jira api was SOAP). Which lead to a soap package on cpan.org, and it (the google index) didn't even show the latest version but a tarball version from 2001 (this was in 2012) which he installed manually.

Fast forward a few months and randomly the tickets that this perl script was creating in Jira were sometimes only have filled out and full of gibberish. It was quite the head scratcher to figure out, but in the process I noticed the super old SOAP package installed, I updated it via cpanm and all the problems went away. Apparently the old soap version didn't even have support for UTF8 and that was the issue (the script actually copied comments from employees in the other monitoring system and some new employees were given new laptops with Win8 that for what ever reason was sometimes using the UTF8 version of non breaking space chars...)
I'd hope that it wouldn't. "Today's HTML-heavy emails" are horrible.
I know a (small) number of YC companies and they all have a "young, charismatic ivy league graduate" on board. I imagine there's some sort of subconscious bias at play here that equates those properties with "quality of the founders".

Be that as it may, if you're one of those people you can use it to your advantage and get away with less traction.
The context of that conversation is about whether one's private life should affect how we take one's work. #metoo is an excellent reference in that case.
Fairness in Machine Learning with PyTorch
Fixed contrasts.
With MetalK8s, Scality Puts Kubernetes on Bare Metal
Gamers will still see the effects of this power on lower quality rigs. Global illumination can be approximated by doing ray-tracing computations at the surface level rather than the image level. Modern-day games are approximating more and more complex effects in this way, and I personally think that the gap between a game like Nier Automata or The Witcher 3 (which both use a lot of global illumination but are still rasterized) and ray-traced images isn't that stark.
This was the laziest attempt at whataboutism I have seen all year. It didn't even make any sense. Step your game up.
The situation is deteriorating inside Cruise.
Could it have more to do with near past, namely 1950 nuclear familly ideal? Middle class women were housewifes - which can be very lonely if you don't put effort into keeping relationships. People have to make effort to meet you and if you alienate them, they simply cease to make effort.

Meanwhile men went to work where people have no choice but to communicate with you. You don't have to put effort into relationship, you are guaranteed not to be really lonely. In fact, too much relationship can be detrimental as you all compete for position and salary etc. Being a bit of jerk can pay of and you don't have to care whether people like you - if they don't it is up to them to deal with it. Plus there was influence of past war on expectations on males (be like veterans are).

That leads to two different kind of socializations for boys and girls - where boy socialization leads to loneliness in long term, when you are too old to pick up new habits.
That license means it's essentially dual licensed, and the more liberal license will trump it (BSD), you cannot publish something as BSD and then "downgrade it" afterwards.

The license you were forced to accept is probably just a generic license covering all software in the computer history museum for when the owners have _not_ provided a more liberal license.
Yes, it's a welcome interruption for me too, and that's all the problem :).
2005 era Perl is still Perl 5. It might not be using the more modern extensions, but it's not like it was written in Perl 3 or something.

I wonder if they were building the pages in the CGI module directly? That was pretty common back then but has been depreciated for a few years now, although it still works for now.
In psychology there's this concept called body mirroring. Monkeys do it, as does humans. It's the idea that the subordinate ape tends to mirror the posture of the dominant one. Mental models are obviously a useful tool, but I always found it funny that people who write posts about it keep reusing the phrase "latticework", as if it has any useful meaning, instead of just removing it to make the content more concise. I think of it as a linguistic version of body mirroring.
Is Virtual Reality and AR really going to be the future?
Iridium-6/GRACE-FO Mission
GDPR protects nobody's legitimate rights. It only infringes rights of server owners.
> The context of that conversation is about whether one's private life should affect how we take one's work. #metoo is an excellent reference in that case.

No, it's not; sexual assault and harassment are part of working life and/or public offenses, not “private life”.
> And its only ~$9 a super-charge last time I checked

Prices on superchargers were raised: https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/12/17110904/tesla-supercharg...

It's approximately $22 now, and more in places where electricity prices are higher. This raises your estimate to around $24,000 over the course of 300,000 miles.

The 400 kWh of free supercharging is only if you don't have a referral. Buyers with a referral receive unlimited supercharging.

This isn't an absurd number, either. There are commuters, salesmen, and others that simply drive a lot who easily manage 50,000 to 100,000 miles in a year. (There are hundreds of 2015 and newer cars on AutoTrader currently with over 300,000 miles). But you don't even have to drive that much for it to be worth it. The Model S has an 8 year powertrain warranty with unlimited mileage (which the Model 3 does not), over the course of which you save about $10,000 for every 100,000 supercharger miles you use.
Interesting. My grandmother used to dump her coffee grounds on her roses almost every day. She swore it was what made them so big.

A lot of Starbucks stores will give you grounds for free for use in your garden. I don't know if they recommend composting first or not. My guess is they don't care.
Thousands of kilometres is too close sometimes.
UK needs big digital upgrade to thrive after Brexit, says Hammond
If that were the case, no one would bother with marriage. It would be completely meaningless. This is an incredibly naive view.

The relevant question is not whether it's legal nor what one's religion has to say on the matter. The question is whether he showed character, and we can evaluate that by whether he lived up to his word and--especially--by how his wife took it.
Not a knock against the people who created metacpan, but it is interesting how much faster search.cpan.org is than metacpan.org when displaying basically identical information on module pages. The page load time is consistently about 5 to 10 times faster on search.cpan.org on the first load of a page, though subsequent loads are faster on metacpan, so they must have some caching in front.
That, sometimes a huge, throw the baby out with the bathwater, rewrite by a separate team (via MetaCPAN) is the correct way to go to move forward?

Or, that CPAN's greatest worth is the modules themselves and not the search engine of the modules?

What's it tell you?

Anyways, thanks for all the search.cpan.org memories. I feel that I have memories pre 2002 of the site (maybe I'm wrong?)
>"The US will be keen to protect homegrown global monopolies."

I don't believe the US will be "keen" to protect FB if that's in fact what you are stating here. There is just as much concern about FB in the US as there is in the EU, even if the political will to act might be blunted in the US by lobbyists and money.

I would argue that FB isn't a "US monopoly" per se but a global monopoly.
How great perl is, how long it lasts with minimal effort. Not many active sites from that era that still functioning, let alone ones maintained by 1 person.

By comparison, Google was still in beta at that stage, youtube was still 6 years away, and Mark Zuckerburg was 14.
Ask HN: BI/ML transferable to other industries
I wanted to get other BI/ML folks input on how transferable their abilities and knowledge is to other industries. It seems that a lot of the insights into the data and impact come through understanding the business and it would be interesting to hear if that has presented a significant roadblock to getting hired and/or being effective in a new industry.

I am pushing 7+ years in a BI/ML role with my current company and I want to make sure I am not locking myself out of getting employed elsewhere.
>Can the farmers actually afford to gamble on the markets.

Crop insurance is a thing. Though I don't know how much it helps.
Sure, I tried it over Shopify because I wanted the ability to have complex pricing (well over 100 per product). I built a system that allowed for the ability to have dynamic prices based on the base product price + a combination of selected options.

Craft has a fairly sane way to do plugins. Commerce itself is a well written if sometimes obtuse plugin, which is handy because some of the documentation isn't great (the new version - 3 - looks better). It is an EVA database, but it's simple to navigate and debug. There's some fairly powerful ways to handle loading content.

In summary I'd say have a poke around the commerce plugin, you can run it for free unlicensed. It has a growing ecosystem of plugins, which is nice coming from Spree. Oh and support is pretty good too.
when ever I hear words about packaging or boxes the only one best printing company comes to my mind is printcosmo.com
This is meant to provide an archive for the code. A major attraction of using GitHub is to allow easy pull requests and issues. If you're not going to be using those features, it's mostly useless when you already have your own infrastructure for hosting data. Lastly, if you're using a version control system other than Git, GitHub is not going to work well.
people should really give it a book
Oh, I was honestly not aware. Now I know to look for differences. You don't have to, but could you give some pointer or clue as to why PicoLisps prolog engine is not a proper Prolog?
After the MH370 crash, are there any initiatives to make some kind of water-deployed radio beacon standard equipment on large passenger aircraft? Seems like a lot of search expense could have been spared if MH370 has been with one of these, and by now we'd already have these answers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_position-indicating_...
I just installed it and liking it so far.

I had the same issue with the all-or-nothing phone experience because of maps that I use everyday for traffic.

I'm liking this so far.
I'm not so sure if you mean mosaicism for the immune cells. Do you mean VDJ and VJ recombination in TCR and BCR chains?
At the same time education is encouraging people to not trust the mainstream. There's a lot of reasons for that, thanks to tabloids and seemingly credible papers going bananas once in a while. So educated people do their own research. Which sometimes goes wrong.

For example, a lot of conspiracy theorists are educated people. Their research just took an interesting turn at one point or another.

@bachbach's example of pro-Soviet intellectuals is a good one as well. There was a similar downtown on the other side of the wall too. Quite a few anti-soviet dissidents turned into conspiracy theorists later on. In both cases, people were happy to rebel and look for alternatives and their education did help them. But eventually their curiosity took them too far.
`dharma` is the term we buddhists use to designate the (sacred) teachings of Buddha. Would you use `Coran` or `Bible` to name your project? Probably not.
It would have been a good idea to take more time to reflect on your choice of name.
Robert Piersig illustrates these higher-level concepts, which he calls forms,

Pretty sure that's attributed to Plato. Well I guess he called them είδε but he couldn't wait around for English to get invented.
Starving your potential growth by not spending enough money? Failing to achieve usability by staying in your basement too long? Allowing competitors to get established before you? These seem like outcomes from waiting too long.
> Laws cannot stop a technology that is easily availabe, like number plate scanning or face recognition. Nothing can stop it.

Which is why I said that completely illegal is not realistic. What laws can do is provide a scope and framework on how technology is used. Data retention, sampling, court admissibility, etc... are all pieces that can be argued and adjusted to fit with new technology. But, like I also said above, I don't have faith that current law makers understand technology enough to make any of these laws. It will take some overreach cases that end up in SCOTUS to get anything done.

> You might just as well outlaw knives

Using knives in a certain way (stabbing someone for example) is against the law. Using this new technology in certain ways could also be against law.
Which may only make them question mainstream media. Hopefully it'd make social media more reliable.
> The license you were forced to accept

I didn't accept it. I'll try to get them to remove those terms, that appeals to me more than agreeing to legal terms I don't intend to abide by.
Sometimes I wonder if it's just not some kind of stockholm syndrome.

You're an enterprise class CxO and negotiating with Oracle is playing with the big boys. All CxOs around you sing praise for Oracle. You can reasonably well get Oracle to drop their prices with 40% at a new sale, so now you feel like an ace in negotiating. Things are looking great.

Then you have to pay. And again. And again. Meanwhile, the support is bad, the quality is low, and people start to grumble.

It turns out that 60% of a lot of money is still a lot of money, and you're in a position where you have to defend what you've bought to your peers. Oracle is very helpfull here, it has an enterprise aura that rivals Steve Jobs' reality distortion field. Oracle makes sure the other CxOs you meet are very pro Oracle and very enterprisy. So you either drown or learn to sing the qualities of oracle.

At that point, you're ready to be one of those peer CxOs that will lure the next generation of CxOs into oracle's traps.

Add to all this that at the end of the 1990's, oracle was the best database, no discussion. It coasted along on that reputation until now. Postgres is mostly there today, but this is 20 years later
Young, charismatic ivy league grads are one specific instance of "the quality of founders ". Another, equally fitting one is, "A successful serial entrepreneur with an exit or two under their belt". Another, albeit seemingly outdated one is, "a former Googler". There are many ways a founder can be of high quality that are not ivy league grads.
Landing in Barcelona
Ask HN: Which companies are in the business of fixing broken hiring practices?
Hiring is very broken in a lot of places, especially for tech jobs. At its worst it wastes a ridiculous amount of time on the part of all parties. False positives/negatives, high amounts of credentialism as a superficial way to cull the hiring pipeline, etc. Are there any companies that are looking into making a business out of solving this problem for other businesses?
Also, for the record, AWS is hardly top of the industry in terms of talent. It's not Google or Facebook. I've never heard of an ML researcher joining Amazon when they could have joined Google/FB/Apple.
My third boss wanted to open source some code. I got the pleasure of witnessing our hackiest developer’s eyes go wide when he mentioned this idea.

Maybe you should stop writing code that you’re embarrassed to let other people see. Your coworkers will thank you.
Thanks for this feedback! Feel free to pass along other thoughts or suggestions to feedback@siempo.co

1. We are exploring possibilities for the lock screen. Any ideas?

2. Absolutely! We plan on offering more formatting options in upcoming releases.

3. On our roadmap :)
How many languages haven't gotten any new features since 2005? Even C has seen some improvements. Python got one incompatible update openly, and some others covertly (syntax changes like f" and @-operator, where some.py written with python 3.x can cause syntax errors w/ python 3.(x-1)). Perl 6 was released. C++ has seen a couple standards revisions. A couple new ECMAScript standards were issued. Newest Perl 5 is v5.26, in 2005 it was 5.9.2 (see perlhist(1)), if you have so many new and stable stuff available, maintaining something 9 years old is a burden even if it was perfect.
Yes -- two parties are permitted to lend money to one another in a mutually agreed environment. It's important to note, though, that developers who build end-user applications on top of Dharma ought to be cognizant of lending regulations / securities law in the jurisdictions they are active in. However, we've opted to build Dharma in a non-jurisdictionally-biased manner -- we think that jurisdiction-specific regulatory restrictions are better implemented at the application layer rather than the protocol piping.
In 2005 mod_perl was a pretty popular way to build a perl site. It's almost certainly using mod_perl under the hood.