skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure if I agree. If you have some knowledge of the language is still mostly easier to translate the words you don't understand. Easy texts work, anything more complicated (e.g. science articles) not really.
Those darn ‘EU people’ (whomever that may be), holding elections at will, until people elect what they want.

It’s a bit like the typical anti Apple fanfare, nobody’s buying the devices because Apple can’t keep up with demand!
Same in Italy, this diamonds thing is an US anomaly similar to other things like cost of healthcare and so forth.
>Simpler does not mean better.

Doesn't mean worse either. If it solves the same problem as dep in a less complex way I'd say it's better, if it actually does is something we'll see once it sees adoption.
> “You’ve seen a bifurcation internally at many larger houses where senior managers are very skeptical about crypto, while graduates and younger team members are very positive,” said Grimsley. “The youngsters may have less intellectual baggage and may be more open-minded, but they also have less responsibility for managing risk and working out the practicalities of bolting on crypto to the existing business.”

It's a very telling quote and you are left wondering to which extend bitcoin suffers from youthful exuberance instead of the sometimes boring pragmatism of making it profitable.
In other words, as with most successful marketing campaigns (sadly), you can't dispel its effects simply by saying "it's a marketing campaign".

(Edit/add: Though, contradicting my own argument a bit, I think point 2 and 4 - that there was deliberate effort to establish it as a "luxury item" and that today it's used to fund all kinds of atrocities - could be able to change demand of diamonds: They also change the things that wearing a diamond would imply about the wearer.

The Mossanite argument makes no sense because one of the points of wearing a diamond is to be seen as "my significant other is rich and/or dedicated enough to gift me this" - however, no-one wants to be seen as a helpless brainwashed sheep or a supporter of war crimes.)
I think the meaning was in terms of a time keeping device not as a value store. The cheapest Walmart watch keeps time significantly better than the most expensive mechanic watch and many will last years of use.
Ask HN: Is there a place to learn Hadoop/Hive/Big data analysis through cloud?
My laptop doesn't have enough disk space/memory to run a virtual machine that contains Cloudera/Hortonworks effectively so I am wondering if there are any free cloud-based alternatives?
Then you have a prisoner's dilemma, no?

To the individual gang, wouldn't it be safer to 'defect'?

Edit or would it be more a tragedy-of-the-commons?
I wish it was. What I mean is that when there is no external deadline there is a habit of starting project 1, when it gets difficult, then start project 2, when it gets difficult, then start project 3, ...

Both in work and with my hobbies, the end result is that there are many unfinished projects. The ones that get finished are usually very good, because a lot of thought went into them, but the ratio finished:unfinished is like 1:4. Similar to investment funding, but in the personal case it seems to be a form of procrastination. I tend to switch projects when the one I'm working on becomes difficult.

I admire the people who can work sequentially, project 1 -> finished, project 2 -> finished, etc.
>he invested all the savings he had available from six years working for an investment consultancy in Northern England, or 10,000 pounds ($13,250)

He saved just $180 per month?

>he said Ether cost about $10 when he invested

So he got lucky by buying in early... not because of successful trading. Yet he gives advice as if he was an expert trader.
You are implying then that the point is to pay a lot of money and your future wife should be happy that you are paying a lot of money for a useless thing, just to show you did it. This is a bad ground for a relationship IMHO. Because otherwise the physical qualities (how it looks) is the whole point.
At least he didn't call it "Done"
Do not run untrusted code at ring 0, regardless of software sandboxing technology. It's just too risky!

Otherwise neat.
Hey, that's me!

Let me share a tip that might work for you as well then: some times you will procrastinate heavily because you're have a hard problem with no solution in sight. You'll want to make some semblance of progress, but you just can't sit down and concretely work on it. It's by design! Your subconscious keeps working in the background, thinking outside the box until one day out of nowhere you get the solution right before your eyes.

I'm not sure it's possible to think outside the box if you're not procrastinating, since you need other types of unrelated input for your brain to make a different type of association and reach a conclusion from another perspective.

I'd like to read more about this phenomenon but has been one of my best tricks up my sleeve in my career. Recently I've been trying to write down a complex piece of code, the corner stone of my application critical to the whole business. I've spent weeks on that problem, tried and failed to design a working solution, spent hours reading papers during working time instead of writing anything, browsing HN mindlessly, until after 2 months, out of the blue at 4am looking at cat pics on reddit I found the answer. And I'm now enjoying this newfound wave of productivity until my next hard problem.

EDIT: I think it's called the Eureka effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eureka_effect

EDIT 2: other things I found that help the Eureka effect:

* taking a shower

* walking

* mindless consuming (watching a movie, browsing youtube or reddit)

* reading a book

* sleep deprivation
Honestly I think the raspberry pi indicates the (short-term) future of AI. Most of the “easy” problems have been solved (image classification, game playing), but the hard ones like NLP are orders of magnitude more complex and therefore elusive.

I’m happy to leave the hard problems for the PhDs and the big tech researchers. Go nuts, folks.

In the meantime, the applications for small-scale, pre-trained neural networks seem limitless. Manufacturing, agriculture, retail, pretty much any industry could make use of portable neural networks.
btrfs has some dedup options, but I just recently looked and they all seem like kludges. I'd really like HAMMER on Linux, but that doesn't seem to be going anywhere. And I don't really want to run DragonFly for my backup servers, for maintenance reasons.
The selling pitch.

Nobody is saying your designer handbag is naturally rare. They explicitly say "we produce it in a small number so that it's exclusive".
Luxury goods prices are largely related to the cost of production in the form of quality rather than any other form of scarcity. The question they answer is 'what is the very best product possible?' Luxury leather bags for example have a huge degree of craftmanship (which is why fakes are mostly lousy and very distinguishable). This is why they become a well-known brand in the first place - it's a mark of quality in design and production.

Rimowa is an example where they have had to constantly innovate in order to maintain a quality edge. Service is another area - if you buy a Hermes silk tie, you can get it cleaned and pressed for life for free at any Hermes shop in the world (cleaning and pressing silk ties is incredibly hard and they often get destroyed by dry cleaners).

The problem occurs when the brand itself becomes the cash cow as a result of this consistency in quality, and businesses start to exploit this. They will usually slap their brand on an outsourced production line product and charge a premium. Occasionally that might be justified by the product having a great distinguishing design to compensate but often it's not the case - and that's where we start to think of it as a bit of a scam. An example is Church's Shoes. From 1873, they were around the highest quality brogues in the world available at any price (short of bespoke shoes) and were handmade in workshops in Northampton. In the 1990s Prada bought them and started transferring production of all but a top end line to Italy, where the shoe manufacturing was partly automated and inferior. Unless you are buying the handmade bench grade shoes, you are now paying extra for the name and probably being a bit of a mug unless you are very attached to the particular design. Now that brand is tarnished for the high end shoe market and dependent on consumer ignorance for the rest. (As a sidenote, a lot of the craftspeople who worked for Church's before the takeover moved to the other Northampton shoe makers who used to be considered lesser quality and some of those brands are slowly moving into the luxury end as a result of the quality improvements.)

I will very happily buy a nobrand or knockoff where there is no functional difference or the price tradeoff doesn't justify the difference, but often top end goods can justify their price.
Retrospectively it might sound that the Japanese were partially right in pursuing "high performance" computing with their fifth generation projects [1] but the Alpha Zero results are impressive beyond the computing performance achieved. It was a necessary element but not the only one.

[1] https://mobile.nytimes.com/1992/06/05/business/fifth-generat...
She's even had random strangers (like a store checkout clerk or hotel front desk) ask to see it closer and then compliment what a good job I did (not tooting my own horn, I and others think it's just as silly as you do, but if you want the girl you get her what she wants).
It sounds more like anti-natalism is your personal philosophy, and you make the same assumption the holders of most philosophical, ideological, and religious positions make: sooner or later, everyone else will realize to be true what I realize is true.

The history of man suggests otherwise. The more our civilization progresses, and the more the population swells, the broader the array of philosophical positions those within the civilization tend to hold. We have no evidence for everyone eventually coalescing around one 'right' belief set.

History is also littered with non-reproductive sects, like the Essenes, aesthetics, or, today's answer to these, anti-natalists and child-free individuals. These groups don't tend to be very good at passing their belief systems on to new generations however, as one might expect, and they don't tend to last particularly long once they've emerged on the civilization scene.
I'll concede less war. The production of fashion goods including luxury handbags involves a pretty good amount of slave and child labor.
Often you need exactly that. Because it's the unique words the machine will get wrong. If you look for machine learning tutorials/presentations that mention a certain algorithm, the name of it must be correctly transcribed. At the moment, it appears to me that 95%+ of words work but exactly the ones that define a video often don't. But then again getting those right is hard, there's not much training data to base it on.
Thank god. We're definitely not ready and perhaps could never be ready for true general purpose ai.
This is probably a general headless-Chrome question, but - with something like this, how would you go about specifying margins, page breaks, etc?
Ask HN: What IDE should I use for plotting in Python?
I'm starting to plot graphs using Python in the Spyder IDE. Spyder 3.2.0 removed the Python Console for good. I'll be plotting for stats analysis, starting with small data sets. Eventually looking to find work in this area.

I can plot in the iPython console in Spyder but I can't currently work on graphics etc, in a separate window, save all changes, come back to it later.

I'm going to invest a lot of time into this, so it'd be helpful to have advice starting out. ie I'd like to avoid getting substantially into the process and then realizing I need an entirely new tool set.

Any advice welcomed, thanks!
No difference. Just that mindless consumption culture turns people with brains into ants running an ant hill. So there will always be opposition.
That’s still usually not the most important. For instance even if your partner is the best thing that ever happens to your life, the most important moment will be the proposal or whatever moment you recognize and mutually accept you need each other in your life.

The wedding is the inking of the deal, the most important moment is when you agree to the deal in the first place (and I hope that’s way far before the wedding takes place).

From there, the impact of the wedding is mostly memories, networking and social perception.
There’s a lot of that on Wall Street too.
Yes you should just slam the brakes. ABS is your best chance to get the minimum breaking distance. And you maintain control over the car.

Even without ABS, I have been trained to slam the brakes in emergencies. Without slamming you would lose too much precious stopping distance that you can’t get back.
Are you working in feature factory? Chances are you're doing Scrum:

https://hackernoon.com/12-signs-youre-working-in-a-feature-f...
How easy/hard is it to extract diamonds from these old settings and get a new setting for it? Where would one even go to get a diamond placed in a new setting?
Measuring gravity is hard. What you can do is measure gravity at both ends of your ship and if they differ by a lot you're currently being shredded apart by a blackhole.
Well, that's because you are not thinking criminal enough :)

The modus operandis of commercial kidnappers is to always blindfold the victim in transit to and/or from the hideout, and after a ransom has been collected.

Then of course the victim enjoys very limited freedom to go outdoors while in captivity. Depending on the gang's methods, the hold house could be in the middle of nowhere, or if they are sophisticated enough to buy off the police, in the middle of a busy town.

The key to not getting unravelled is to use multiple hold houses and to routinely transport the victim to a different location by bundling him/her inside the trunk of a vehichle at night.
thanks!
When I wrote that line I think I went with the top result of physics.stackexchange, but I'm now convinced that the phase velocity explanation is better.

Here is my updated text:

<p>While individual waves of light always move at c, light seems to move slower in dense media. This is because as the light wave propagates through a medium it produces ripples that <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiHN0ZWE5bk">interfere</a> in a way that slows the group velocity of the light wave.</p>
What I’ve Been Doing Since Quitting My Job
You seem to believe the commercials more than most Americans do. The vast majority of people don't spend that much on an engagement ring (I'm pretty sure the commercials said "two months'" not "several" anyway--but still, that's nuts, no one I know spent anywhere near that much). An engagement ring is pretty entrenched as a tradition, sure, but not the boggling part about the expense.
Online Reputation Management: Making Patient Engagement More Effective
What’s that quote from Elon Musk - process is an excuse for large companies to keep mediocre talent?

Put enough smart people in a room and they’ll figure it out. Scrum isn’t any worse than Kanban or ‘pure’ Agile or Waterfall or Lean — every system has tradeoffs and smart people learn to adjust.

No company is perfect. Tell management how the process can be improved. If they ignore you, consider moving on.
Yes, this post missing the point that I as a diamond buyer already know this but it will not stop me from purchasing more diamonds.

In a hypothetical world, if a diamond could be bought for $10K and sold for $10K, where is the risk? Then it's no longer for only rich, others can take a loan from a bank and purchase diamonds.

When I pay for a diamond, I don't pay for its intrinsic value.
I pay for diamonds because other people around me feel they are expensive and you've to be rich enough to set your money on fire (like you do while purchasing a diamond). It's a signal for others that I am "fuck you money" rich.

The very same reason for which I purchase a sports car, yes a sports car does have some advanced engineering but the resale value is not same.

As long as diamond purchase price stays up I'll keep buying. Only thing I want is that no other people are able to acquire them for cheap when I am willing to pay a premium. (I hate price discrimination, i've also worked hard for my money, why should anyone get them cheap?)

Please stop treating me like a victim of De Beers campaign.
This is absolutely correct. If you are driving on a loose service (not just _packed_ snow) like snow or gravel, emergency braking is faster without ABS because skidding the wheels causes the material to bunch up in front of the wheels, dramatically reducing vehicle speed.

On a constantly slippery surface (ice, snow, not normally gravel) you may want to disable ABS because the ECU cannot correctly tell the vehicle speed, so may activate ABS incorrectly. However, modern systems to tend to be quite good. I believe it is best to keep systems such as traction control on though.
Powerless? No. Just don’t buy it. It really is that simple. You don’t have to change everyone’s mind. Just stand up for yourself.
> Been married 27 years so far so it seems to have worked!

As I like to joke with my wife, it’s not a successful marriage until one of us dies.

As for rings, we didn’t do an engagement ring, and my wife’s ring contains a sapphire mined from our home state.
It's pretty sad, that the best way of analyzing HTTP traffic from the command line appears to be comparing payload bytes:

~$ sudo tcpdump -s 0 -A -vv 'tcp[((tcp[12:1] & 0xf0) >> 2):4] = 0x47455420'

There should be a better way to do that. Ideally I would want a tool shows Request Method, Headers, Query String, POST Payload of requests as they come in (and let's me filter on those). It should support HTTP2 and know how to stitch together the payload from multiple packets.

HTTPS is a difficult topic. I think it's fair for a tool like this, not to mess with encrpytion. Usually you don't want to had a precious private key file to a command line tool for debugging. A better way seems to be to terminate SSL on a separate host, and analyze the un-encrypted traffic.
I saw that warning in the projectionist area, so projectionists didn't think the system was malfunctioning, phrased similarly to the one in that article. I wonder if those theatres just put the sign in the wrong place, or thought it was supposed to be public when it wasn't.
The weirdest aspect about diamonds is they are not even that pretty. Plenty of other gems are much more beautiful for a lot less money.
Some of the issues stem from a tendency of Gnome to want to "manage" your stuff for you. Evolution sticking its fingers into other things, something indexing files, apps wanting to manage your photos. I've had trouble with my music collection. You'd think it's possible to copy some folders with .mp3 files into your home directory and point the music app at it. But no, files have to be imported or some crap and I actually had so much trouble with this on F26 or so that I gave up. Seriously, apps have to get dumb again in order to work. It's like IDEs for software - a folder structure with .c .h and make files should define a software project, but so many IDEs want to "manage" things in a proprietary project file of some sort and it tends to make things less portable or functional outside that paradigm. I get that there are advantages to all of these things if you do things the way the developers intended, but it ends up feeling like Apples attitude of "we know what's best for you" and iTunes wanting to take over your system.
I think the problem is the definition of AI. It appears most in the field define it as a superset of ML, encompassing all kinds of statistical methods and data analysis. For the general public, AI is a synonym for deep learning. When large companies speak about AI they always mean deep learning, never just a regression (probably also because many don't see a regression as intelligent). So AI in the public's perception could face a winter but much of the domain of machine learning would be unaffected.
One big difference is that many men feel obligated to buy expensive diamond engagement rings to their pretenders to "show his love", i.e., the three salary rule[1].

This kind of cultural/social pressure was built from a long history of, one could say brilliant, marketing campaigns.

[1] https://www.financialsamurai.com/the-new-rule-for-engagement...
Well, "up to" is important here, right?

GPUs are known to be able to speed up certain workloads, and can save a lot of money - by replacing distributed systems with a more compact GPU-enabled machine which can perform better for said workloads...
I feel exactly the same way. Just wait 2-3 years before someone launches an embedded TPU and the sky will be the limit.
Tehran wants to sue Washington for its indirect involvement
Are PDF's Obsolete?
This is fine as an opinion piece and a close reading of parts of the scrum guide, but some kind of evidence (even reports via surveys) would help.
> What’s that quote from Elon Musk - process is an excuse for large companies to keep mediocre talent?

Isn’t he the same guy who’s been learning that more process is necessary to make cars safely and on-schedule? I’d be reluctant to draw any broad conclusion from one optimistic aphorism.
Persistent bias on Wikipedia: methods and responses
Accountancy used to be boring and safe, but today it’s neither
> A `union(TagType)` in Zig is a tagged union and has safety checks on all accesses in debug mode. It is directly comparable to a Rust enum. Any differences are probably more down to the ways you are expected to access them and Rust's stronger pattern matching probably helps some here.

But if I understand correctly, out-of-the-box, Zig's `union` doesn't get a tag type, right? That's what I meant by Rust's `enum` being safer: you can use it safely in Zig, but you have to actually request safety, because that's not the default behavior.

I probably should have phrased it differently, though.

And the "more powerful" is about the fact that a Rust enum can actually carry data, while it doesn't seem to be the case with Zig.

>> I don't see smart pointers in Zig, and more generally, I have no idea how to deallocate memory in Zig.
>
>You would use a memory allocator as mentioned above and use the `create` and `destroy` functions for a single item, or `alloc` and `free` for an array of items. Memory allocation/deallocation doesn't exist at the language level.

So, it sounds like deallocations are not checked by default, right?

> I know Andrew wants to write an async web-server example set up multiplexing coroutines onto a thread-pool, as an example.

That would be a nice example, for sure!
Reminds me of Football X-7!
If they're not aware of any other humans (let alone all the cities out there) then they're likely not aware of the actual size of the earth. Perhaps they only consider it in terms of the surrounding territory.
It's a valid point but diamonds are definitely a bit different. Luxury fashion items are differentiated. Most of the time they don't have identical substitutes. And when they do they might be hard to get and illegal.

Diamonds are much more pure in how few effects make for its value.

The point is - I don't think anti-diamond crusaders are being randomly selective.
Not if you `git clone --recursive` an evil repo with anything < 2.17.1 (which is the point of the article and the reason of this discussion): then your copy will have hooks that you have not put in.
I encourage the author to load this post over a spotty 2G connection. I have the feeling that some paragraphs (mainly quotes) were just missing for me, maybe because of failed XHRs. Also, it takes much longer to load despite being plain text.
None of us are perfect. :)
OP do you work at my company by any chance? This is scarily accurate.
I've always found it fascinating how powerful DeBeers' marketing is, considering that in nature gems like rubies and sapphires are much rarer than diamonds yet are worth considerably less.