skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Everyone is telling you "this is a dumb idea that will never work", but that is effectively what we are doing her every in Isla Vista, CA. The County Public Works department has decided on some red curbed locations that they are willing to convert into dockless bike storage regions, the nearby University is making all of their existing bike rack areas be viable options, and everyone is trying to coordinate with the local Recreation & Park District to get some locations inside of parks.
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>You ever notice how thin-skinned he is towards criticism

Don't really notice this. Got any examples (I follow tesla and spacex a lot so I'm probably biased towards backing him)?

>How he's constantly pivoting to projects which are years away?

Really> His Tesla master plan has been on point. The only spacex big change I can remember is the huge delays to falcon heavy but that was primarily due to falcon 9 capabilities growing by leaps and bounds cannibalizing almost all of the heavy contracts (also, changing falcon 9 capabilities effects falcon heavy design).
This is awesome :) having written a database myself, I very much encourage others to try it out for fun, learning, and maybe seriously too!
Does anyone know the background on smiley face with bullet in head t-shirt? There are people selling this t-shirt but no one seems to have what's the context.

BTW, you are not going to have this kind of experience anymore. Most CEOs (i.e. except two) and VPs of large public companies don't talk to "graphics engineer" from a small company, let alone they actually care about such low level details. Perhaps this is why there are no more Steve Jobs.
> if you ask the people who write these posts if they are doing propaganda, there's a good chance that their initial genuine response will be to say no.

Actually, they'll probably say yes. Most Chinese do not think of propaganda as something negative. Every student club at my university has an unironically named "propaganda department" that manages their social media. "Propaganda" just never underwent the value shift that happened in other countries, so although there's a translation of "PR" almost nobody uses the word.
It sounds to me like you should have a prewritten response for people who were interested enough to contact you, but who don't know where to start.
So make sure your food doesn't touch the walls of the fridge or it will spoil. Got it.
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True but not relevant to reuse savings, since reuse without expensive refurbishing hasn't happened yet, and reuse at all rather rarely; it will be common with the Block 5 Falcons just coming into use now. There's no planned drop in price to reflect that reuse.
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I have tried codenvy and codeanywhere. Had lot of trouble get going. Most of the times I see tons of error messages in the js console. Thanks for suggesting me this article.
As a 2y+ Bosh user and short to 2y Kubernetes user, I can only second here, that Kubernetes has outpaced Bosh. Don't get me wrong, while I would always prefer Bosh over Chef or Ansible, Kubernetes is simply the better deployment underlay.

I mean, either I have to deploy Bosh or Kubernetes (to deploy more Kubernetes clusters, because that's what we are speaking of here). Kubernetes is now commodity. The idea is to place Kubernetes control planes into Kubernetes clusters (like it became good practice to deploy the OpenStack control planes) and benefit from all the advantages Kubernetes brings along. No need to go for another tool, but there are more points:
- First off, Bosh is no thing in the Kubernetes community – it is primarily a tool used in the context of Cloud Foundry.
- By using Kubernetes to manage itself you have less components, less learning. It is there already and everybody who works with Kubernetes doesn’t need to pick up yet another technology.
- Bosh provisions VMs, which are slow to provision. What takes minutes with Bosh, takes seconds with Kubernetes.
- VMs lead to massive fragmentation as they are mostly under-utilized and in the worst case over-utilized.
- Bosh can’t scale processes as it commandeers only VMs, while in Kubernetes everything is a pod/container that can scale up or out automatically using the VPA/HPA.
- Using the Bosh Kubernetes CPI has other disadvantages we can discuss in breadth, but I don't think we should, because its experimental at best and I know no installation actually running on it.
- Bosh can’s scale VMs automatically, while Kubernetes can. If the cluster is nearing saturation, the cluster-autoscaler provisions more VMs on-the-fly (or shrinks the cluster back).
- Bosh uses outdated Monit to watch over single processes, while Kubernetes pods are managed by the container engine on the lower level and by Kubernetes itself on the higher level.
- Bosh depends on rather large Ubuntu-based or CentOS Pivotal stemcells (with the Bosh agent) and Pivotal updating them, while there are much light-weighter options like CoreOS Container Linux and no lock-in (you can take almost any OS).
- Bosh packages all software into proprietary Bosh Releases and doesn’t isolate the VM processes, while with Kubernetes you create individual images and run them as isolated containers.

The list goes on and on and it is unlikely that Bosh can catch up again (the Pivotal IPO statement seems to indicate the same as major risk [1]). Kubernetes is the new virtualization layer and is made to run software reliably with minimal TCO. I have seen this in practice - Kubernetes is absolutely amazing - also/especially for these types of workloads.

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/23/pivotal-software-files-for...
FWIW, at that time Adobe was already properly handling the password - what leaked was an old backup. Where passwords were hashed, just not properly.

Adobe did mess up on that one - it's just not on the same level, not even close. The main thing that makes it worse was that Adobe has a lot of customer data (likely unlike this guy, who probably didn't have many customers)
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Referrer

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“the fridge itself becomes the battery -- a cold battery.”

Wildly my first thought from from this is that you theoretically could use a peltier in reverse to generate energy. It wouldn’t be efficient but possible.

At a different level, you can also think about your interactions with the fridge. You could segment the fridge such that it had different insulated sections that you use.
I know that story - but think it is enough of an outlier (regardless of how it went down) to basically be irrelevant to almost all hires. The idea that people are routinely filtering out great hires in their thousands in ways that come back to haunt them ... doesn’t seem plausible.

I get what you guys are saying, there just doesn’t seem to be real evidence that is an issue nearly all cases. Whatsapp notwithstanding
Zig explicitly does not depend on the C stdlib
setting the discovery issue aside, there are SaaS companies like cloudinary.com that take care of all the transcoding / delivery / device matching stuff
Performing until 7 inferences at the same time
Any examples of code for this approach? From what I guess, you are implementing some kind of assembly like approach with explicit saving of stack frame, but I am having a hard time imagining it as being easier.
Sure, spontaneous point mutations are very common. They account for many spontaneous abortions. But spontaneous point mutations in the Forkhead box G1 (FOXG1) gene are not very common. And scientists researching FOXG1 are also not very common.

But then, correlation is not causation. And this could well reflect selection bias.

And unless she was working with some vector carrying defective mouse FOXG1 genes, the probability that this particular defect would get transmitted is small.
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I don't have knowledge about this phenomenon specifically, so you might be right that even an educated person would see hope, but I suspect it's more like whatshisface's two comments here which I think are very insightful:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17098795

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17098873

We would expect new discoveries to be outside the range of what we've already tested, not randomly in the middle of it. For example, special relativity becomes significant at high speeds that nobody had ever studied before, not at some odd speed between a horse and a train.

But if you didn't know what has already been tested, you wouldn't know where "outside" is. The fact that the original device used a magnetron from a microwave oven suggests it was well within what we've already studied. Maybe the novel aspect is the very tiny effect which nobody measured accurately enough to notice before.
Just to follow-up on my longer reply above: the solar system is not expanding. So within the solar system, there should be exact conservation of energy. (And we do test this in many ways, and it holds up).

The metric expansion only operates on scales much larger than that of the solar system (and even larger than that of the Milky Way and its collection of nearby neighbours).

(One can take a theory other than General Relativity and finely-tune the expansion of the solar system to match the null results on measures of it, and this is done in some quintessence and other models, but this won't help one do away with exact conservation of energy at scales of EmDrives; or give much room to have more energy moving into (or out of) a boundary drawn outside the solar system and the wider universe).
I'm soon turning 30. I still like games but I can't do the treadmill of new releases anymore; the games I have interest in playing are much fewer and focused in fewer genres. Increasingly I gravitate toward skill-based arcade-style games and competitive games and away from anything with a story and console-style progression.
What you are describing is essentially nihilism. And it's hard to talk yourself out of.

Your first statement is the crux of the argument. It's a tremendous question, we just don't understand, but somehow we are here. Is there even anything here if there wasn't our consciousness to witness it?

But if we don't know the why, we also don't know if it matters or not. And perhaps individually you feel your impact is moot, but you affect those around you, in small ways, and that ripples out to the way they affect the people around them, and so forth.

And you will suffer at some point, but you can also contribute to or ease the suffering of others, that is an active choice on your part. And I believe it is meaningful.

Jordan Peterson touches on this with a nice though experiment. If we collectively all try to contribute to suffering tomorrow, every human on the planet, consciously acting to make things worse. You would have 'hell' on earth in no time.

Alternatively what if everyone tried to make it better?

You are just a cog in that wheel, as we all are, but we add to it's direction.
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No, the idea is that you don't know what you are filtering out. As I said - it's extremely easy to just hand-wave. And if you want to believe that you know the unknown downside I am not the one to persuade you otherwise. But acknowledging that it's just a personal belief not only unsubstantiated but contradicted by data could be a good first step :)
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What do judges maximize?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17075836
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Only in the same sense that ice can help cool you down on a hot day is undermined by the fact that the freezing temperature of ice is 0.

I'm not much of a gun person, but in looking at the history of guns and the quite ambiguous information on positive impacts of control - I've become not only more understanding, but also in support, of their efforts to maintain their rights to arm themselves.
> Does the boss want me to stay through the meeting and get all the information, or does he want me to leap up and get on a plane... so hard to know... if only there was a sign... now I'm not even listening to the rest of the meeting... so nervous... what to do...
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Germany has had this for a while. It works relatively well.
This calculator doesn't seem to support RPN though: https://github.com/numworks/epsilon/issues/35

Too bad. There's always https://www.swissmicros.com/
Same discussion can be found here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17102133
Are bay area software engineer wages really that low that this is the biggest deal?
I have three old solar panels in my boat for a total of 105 W, and 2 cheap 85Ah marine deep cycle 12 V batteries.

It copes with keeping a number of phones, radios, tablets and a small laptop charged, some moderate use of lights, an occasional run of a webasto diesel air heater, and continously powering a compressor driven fridge box.

I think the batteries are one of the cheapest thing in my system.
People in the US love making essentially the same crack about "young men" and "young ladies."
An interesting aspect of the phrase is that there's no oft-used counterpart. "Toxic femininity"?

Some terms are needlessly specific.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17103455
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It's not at all obvious. Politicians, philosophers, ethicists, religious leaders, and military officers have ceaselessly debated this issue since the dawn of civilization and there is still no clear consensus.
An even further radical simplification would be just plugging the fridge into an outlet. But that seems like it would be missing the point a bit.
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I don't think the reason is that mysterious.
Then why does NASA consider it unsafe for mission critical code?

You started with the assertion iterative implementations were more intuitive and easier to read so this is a bit of goalpoast-moving. Write an iterative pseudocode DFS or quicksort. How 'intuitive' does that look?
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Nice. For those who don't care about native UI : has anyone tried to ship a react-like library used in the OS native browser ? That way you avoid Electron bloat, you just need to take care of the design for different native browsers.
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While I support a lower military budget and less interventionist foreign policy, the reality is that it's impossible to publicly justify some investments without revealing classified information that would put intelligence sources at risk. If we're going to have a military at all then people have to be willing to delegate those investment decisions to their elected officials and operate on a need-to-know basis.
Do they?

* I don't believe Microsoft offers support for their free products to people who haven't bought an O365 licence, and instead you have to use their god-awful Microsoft Answers forum (they seem to change this up every few years though so this might not currently be the case). It's community support so if you're having an issue with your account this won't help you, but if you're confused about how to use a product Microsoft makes you might get a response.

* Apple doesn't have any free products (even if you have only downloaded free apps and listen to free audiobooks, you have to run it on hardware you purchased from them).

* Similarly, Amazon requires you to pay in one way or another (Buying an item, paying for prime to watch prime video, etc) to use any of their services. AFAIK AWS doesn't have free support.

* Facebook has a "help center" that's marginally more useful than Microsoft's, but it has the same problem... it's all community support so nobody can "pull up" your account to fix any real issues (like being locked out).
I implemented coroutines for C with assembly [1] (x86 32 and 64 bit). I took advantage of the calling convention to cut down on the amount of state to save (4 registers for x86 32b and six for x86 64b). Mixing this with signals is probably unwise [2]. So far I've tested the code on Linux and Mac OS-X and it works (although I might not use it for C++ either).

[1] https://github.com/spc476/C-Coroutines

[2] In my not-so humble opinion, using signals at all is not wise.
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https://wiki.haskell.org/Foldr_Foldl_Foldl%27 explains this in detail.
Yeah, I do that too (and an offline wallet on a RasPi which has never been internet connected) - but for secure messaging and for some bitcoin transactions, I want that device in my pocket. I treat the iPod cryptocurrency wallet like, well, a wallet - containing amounts I feel comfortable carrying around (like the couple of hundred in cash I might have in my wallet at any time). I "trust" Apple enough to store that. I wouldn't treat the iPod as a bank, storing significant or lifechanging amounts of value.
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Twitter consistently pulls an absurdly low bitrate for the first 3-5 seconds of a video regardless of available bandwidth and it is maddening.
Most certainly not. One of the purposes of the move to out-of-band signaling was to stop the various "box" attacks on the tone-based in-band signaling used previously.

They were very aware of bad actors, they just assumed that their private signaling network would remain private and thus any bad actors with access would be easy to identify and deal with. They never imagined the situation we have today with tens of thousands of telephone service providers and even large customers of those having direct access to the signaling network.
The older I become the more I realize how influential Lisp is/was. The Lisp memory model presented here looks like object oriented data structures, if you squint a little. Java dragged C++ programmers 'halfway to Lisp' [1]. I now do a lot of programming on Python, which is so obviously like Lisp that MIT teaches it instead of Scheme. We don't have continuations and macro yet in mainstream languages, but we'll get there.

[1] http://people.csail.mit.edu/gregs/ll1-discuss-archive-html/m...
Indeed - but youtube allows itself to become a public forum for the propagation of this stuff and it's hard not to see that as worse.
It would be a freakish coincidence if they costs were that close.

How often does a gas station have an insurance incident that could have been prevented by full service?
This is not a normal malware, it's warfare and it's obvious who ever was behind it, is not a normal person.
In my opinion it's probably one of Israel acts against Iran.
Over 70€? You're better off working for a day at a minimum wage job. I'm not saying this is fair but the amount of work involved to (successfully) bring charges against someone who isn't following up on a claim you made would be way greater.
No one?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shining_(film)
This is interesting. Voicing an unpopular opinion is not "agreeable", but if you can't ever act on your truth, you may as well not have ever had it.

My comment, in the context of yours, comes across as childishly excusing/justifying antisocial behaviour. I'm not sure what to thinkn= of that. But I just meant that tendencies tend to transfer.
Seconded. I can only imagine how good Junio must be to have earned that kind of praise and trust.
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Wow. There have been negative stories and critical comments about Theranos for years. Do a search for yourself. I feel like it was on HN where I first heard about Theranos as a potential sham.

Just one example that criticism of Theranos wasn't suppressed as far back as 2015:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10397149

More exists.
While a bit unergonomic to work with, the .7 protocols uses ASN.1 for defining and describing a lot of the protocols and messages.

ASN.1 have some nice ideas that the developer community has failed to grok, reverting back to simpler ideas that are more immediately rewarding, such as hand coding a lot of code that blasts away text based messages that may or may not be understandable to the recipients because, hey it works on my machine.

The core idea is that there is a language that defines the abstract message content, and there can be several encoders - binary, text, compact binary, depening on needs and computing and bandwidth requirements.

There are also some support for defining the criticality of any extensions to a protocol, to inform recipients if the can disregard an additional part it does not understand or if it's critical.

This is not an afterthough as json schema, but the core idea.
> practically everything correlates with race.

Hold on, excuse me?
> this is something you can't just wave a compiler at since it's highly dependent on your dataset and use cases.

While this particular issue might not be addressed in current conpilers, isn't the class of “desired compiler optimizations which are highly dependent on datasets and use cases rather than being analytically determinable from bare code” exactly what profile guided optimizations are about?
Dividing the world into Good and Evil is childish.
I don't see how that squares with the article, which explains that "Don't be Evil" was simply moved from one paragraph to another.
Really disappointed with the treatment of Forth, and other non conventional languages. Forth doesn’t have anything really resembling von Neumann machine random access memory. Neither, for the record, does Turing machines. But the author dismissed these as oddities when in fact they are the most unique examples of something different.
Years before the DoD project was invented and the contract proposed?
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Who at Goldman Sachs professes to be evil? They are doing "price discovery" and "optimizing finance". To a libertarian capitalist, "Evil" simply does not exist in commercial transactions.
Weev was at one point at least somewhat technical, he reminds me a bit of Terry Davis, interesting and quirky at one point in the past but has descended into a sort of pitiful madness.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsTGQbhuL0E
What is our shared morality? If shared morality existed, there would be no Evil.
Makes your blood boil, doesn't it? The injustice just in this thread makes me gnash my teeth :-)

> It was my futile and meaningless attempt at retribution, of course. :)

Don't say that! Each journey starts with a single step, as frustrating and futile as it may seem. And as this thread shows, many are already marching in the same direction. When enough frozen raindrops merge, even mountains move.

Anecdata: My customer experience with Google has been "OK" (a small paid G Suite account). I have no expectation of free support for their free services.
I wonder if simply cooling isn't an option in those applications? I guess that'd depend on the chips power output. Otherwise you could just surround it in a really good insulator and pump residual heat out somehow (maybe can peltiers withstand such high temps using multiple stages?)
> "Don't be evil." suggests that it is forbidden to be evil in all circumstances. How to read the new guideline: "Do the right thing, even if sometimes it requires evil."

The new code of conduct still contains a direct admonishment of “don't be evil”, as the article states.

So, no, I think your reading is unsupported by the source.
> Calculators are a relic from a bygone era, kept in use only by regulations and a captured market.

Uh, no. I often find myself picking up a calculator rather than opening up Mathematica to do a lot of calculations.