skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>blockchain bubble

There is bitcoin, then there are shitcoins.

Every year someone releases a new altcoin with a youtube video that promises the end of war, starvation, etc... Then suckers buy it. 3 years ago, it was developing 'the ultimate privacy coin', because the libertarians ate that shit up.

Using blockchain outside of currency seems expensive and unnecessary.

I dont see bitcoin bubble popping unless they have a security issue. The rest of the coins might be as good as useless when people realize how expensive it is to run 7 computers to do the job of 1.
I would also be very interesting in tips regarding this.
We were talking about wisdom.
With a bit of luck, Godot Engine. Sort of a dark horse, but I like it and my very smart corporate-programmer brother likes it. He says it's designed like a programmer would design it: everything's a node. I know I did a game in Unity (which has become overcomplicated) and had a surprisingly easy time jumping into Godot.
Samsung’s Chromebook Plus now supports Linux apps
Eugenics never went away
I am at a point where I consider using a different framework than the usual to glue things together "interesting".

It used to be even worse though - I spent almost two years maintaining and developing an 8-year-old JavaScript codebase. Sure, it was interesting, but in way I wouldn't wish upon my worst enemy.

Eventually I found an outlet for this need in my work after hours. If you're childless and your line of work is pumping out CRUD apps then you should easily have the capacity to spend an average of at least half an hour daily on interesting things. Embarrassingly enough sometimes I feel I've created more during these thirty minutes than a whole day doing the stuff that pays the bills.
Qualcomm Unveils Snapdragon 850 Mobile Platform
That's actually a grey/black hat way of boosting your ad sales numbers, even if you didn't click.

You buy x at y store, y store has an ad buy with ShadyAdCo. If you see product x in an ad within z time afterwards, it counts as an influence towards your purchase. ShadyAdCo just made money, and y store can give record numbers.

EDIT: typo
I am thinking about blogging about this;

Yes, please do.
To go where exactly? What countries are still actively taking in refugees from this region?

Even now, still 55,000 people are stuck in a no-man's land in the region after Jordan closed their border [0] (since June 2016).

[0] - https://www.alaraby.co.uk/english/news/2018/1/8/jordan-agree...
Did all of that go into running FB? No cash outs for early employees/investors?

In any case, that is still a small portion of their eventual market cap (2%). Also, they had it. It was cheap money. Why not spend it. If they didn't have it, they may have had to create a revenue stream or control costs a little. Running for years before considering revenue or cost control is a luxury.

When you're cashed up, you get spendy.

But, point taken. It's all matter of degrees. It did cost something to make FB. It just wasn't much compared to most companies its size.
In my opinion a similar difference exists between CUDA and OpenCL. OpenCL takes more code to get something simple going. But at least it doesn't break if you upgrade your gcc or use a different GPU vendor.
We all use stackoverflow a lot. And a bit of github too. I am trying to build a website similar to quora using the stackoverflow data dump. But here I am gonna recommend users questions to answer so that he can improve his reputation by answering them.
Content-based ads are worse , though, depending on the site. I believe ad spending is never going to go down, even if advertising is very ineffective. It's something that you need to do to expand a business and there is no alternative.

https://cdn.static-economist.com/sites/default/files/images/...
You may not see why people would want separate accounts, but many people do. Sometimes the accounts are for different legal entities, such as work, personal, and for helping a charity. It is not correct to arbitrarily merge those.

Also, there may be different pay structures and packages used to pay for the services for each of those accounts. Hopefully, you can see how merging these can create far more work for the user, even when there are many cases that have negative benefit.
Go ahead and say what they are if you know them. I doubt you will be able to say anything. Instead of being silent, you should have the courage to admit you don't actually know what you're talking about and don't have much if anything to tell me.
On Khronos dreams, even on Android which was adopted on version 7, is not worthwhile to display on the developer's dashboard.

https://developer.android.com/about/dashboards/

And good luck finding a Vulkan version beyond 1.0, with extensions that work properly across all mobile devices.

http://vulkan.gpuinfo.org/vulkansupport.php#android_devices

You get a spectrum all the way from 1.0.0 up to 1.0.66, with Vulkan 1.1 promised for Android P devices only.
WRT to consumerism in the US, money has never been a barrier to prevent people from purchasing products.

Yes, Apple carries a premium price, but it's not so high that it prices itself away from all but the absolute dirt poor.
I wonder if precision weapons actually increased proportion of civilian casualties by giving commanders an illusion that they know what they're bombing. Of course the nature of conflicts also changed completely.
The problem is still with apple forcing them to invest resources, without any reason, but to advance their vendor lock in. And if you're a developper of a small high performance 3d graphics and gpu computing library like me, its just a giant middle finger from apple and I will either need to drop opengl/opencl or apple - there is no way that i can afford to offer both, especially since i'd need to buy apple hardware to test things.
Failure is a good thing? By itself? What a strange fantasy.
Tech giants set to challenge Facebook and Google's ad dominance
This would have been a valid argument...if they supported Vulkan instead.

But they do not.
I agree. Maybe there is a word for that?

Personally, understanding the "big picture dynamics" of systems is kind of an intellectual porn for me. I loved doing that for as long as I remembered. It always came with the sense of control - understanding the systems means you could tweak it to your liking, if you so desired.

Finally realizing that the system in which we live is basically uncontrollable by an individual within it has blindsided me. So many interesting things happening, so many interesting things that need to be done still, and yet all you and I get to be are observers and consumers of whatever the system happens to spit out.
Good for you.

But you were ostensibly addressing the idea of making it as an independent company - not whether and when revenues and profits might suddenly matter again.
Gitlab requires a lot of resources. We have a local Openstack cluster and were running GitLab on a small instance. It was a beast. Moved to a larger instance and it works beautifully even over the Internet from another ISP.
It sorta is. It was like a single Docker image called "Java" that gave you a complete runtime environment with all the OS internals available through a standard API so long as you wrote everything in one language.
CryptoPotential – CoinMarketCap on steroids
Where is that quote from?
Microsoft buying Github opens many possibilities for competitors.
I've been getting the same exact thing from Amazon for a month now... I already bought a Miele from you Amazon, you should know I don't need another.
Probably. My medium sized city has several OTA television stations that survive partially on untargeted advertising. Ads shown to the relatively small audience supports the running of a significant amount of equipment including broadcast antennas, satellite uplinks, a helicopter, several vans with lots of radio gear in them, servers, a staff of on air personalities and all the other people required to run the station.

How much infrastructure does Facebook need to serve this city? Facebook will be fine.
> OpenGL is only outdated on macOS

Also on Windows.

Apparently, if you want to distribute your software to wide audience, you can only rely on OpenGL 3.0, with minimal set of extensions. Here’s an example: https://github.com/Const-me/GL3Windows#building-and-running

All the target systems had latest Windows updates, and they all run Direct3D 11 software just fine (I mostly develop for D3D and I test on them). On some systems it works in 10.1 compatibility mode, MS calls that “feature levels”. Not a big deal in practice, the majority of D3D11 stuff still works OK.
Worse still, by ignoring a ubiquitous tech in favour of their own bespoke solution they are emulating Apple of the 90s!
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Is there even a way to check if the google and facebook charge the correct number of advert impressions? Seems to me like they can print money by reporting higher numbers.
I really hope they don't pull a "GM in LA" strategy and try to wipe out these bike-shares.

At least in NYC, one of Lyft's main marketing angles has been as a last-mile solution for public transit; in many circumstances, bike-shares do that better (cheaper, no need to wait for a driver, no need to pay per ride if you have a subscription, and riding a bike in a city is often faster than driving). It's easy to see how Lyft could see that and say "what if we just bought them and got rid of them? More profit for us". Especially since those bike-share programs have existing branding deals that make it hard for Lyft to use them for their own branding.
http://adage.com/article/digital/p-g-decided-facebook-ad-tar...
One of the other benefits is keeping those notes around in case some assumptions change in the future and the optimization you picked is no longer viable.
And that’s probably why we have GDPR.
You don't have to be selfish, we're not automatons that have no free will.

If you're starving, or need shelter or some other basic to survival, then yes you need to be selfish. After that being selfish is a choice
Early in my career I thought CPython and Cython were the same. And then Pypy and Pypi confused me. And Python the language vs. Python the implementations and how when someone says "Python" in some contexts they assume "CPython". Landmines everywhere!
My suggestion : forget you CS degree, drop the idea of doing something interesting during your work hours, think about it as inevitable procedure to earn your montly salary. At 5pm run away from your office and focus on whatever you think is interesting.
No, not all States have elected judges. Only some do. I agree that electing judges is idiotic so I'm not sure what you're trying to convince me of.
>"For instance, in your example, if they had observed 1.8x, but the uncertainty on that were 0.8x, no discovery would be claimed despite the relativistic model explaining the data better than the non-relativistic model."

The data is consistent with the predictions of both models in this case. If we want to distinguish between them we need to get more/cleaner data or different data to compare to different predictions. What is wrong with that?

>"You don't just try to find the model that best fits the data and claim a discovery if this isn't your null hypothesis."

This is not what I am suggesting to do, see above.

>"Rather, the data needs to be far enough away from that predicted by your null hypothesis that it is highly improbable that you would find data at least that far from the prediction if the null were true."

What purpose does this serve?

EDIT:

Here is a venn diagram of what I mean, with four possibilities:
https://image.ibb.co/c432OT/venn_Science.png

You are saying for some reason it is important check for !B which equals regions A - (A or B) + !(A or B). Why?

Why not just check which corresponds to the results? Is it model A only, model B only, model A and model B, or neither model A nor model B?
1. You can buy a used iPhone -2 generations for under $200, and it will run the latest iOS with all security updates, which is more than you can say for a used Android phone.

2. Apple is not the one violating privacy at the lower price points. If you’re going to blame a company for making privacy “only for the rich,” blame the company that invades your privacy on the cheap devices, not the one protecting it on the more expensive devices.
Isn't that basically how a high proportion of online dating platforms continue to be so popular? Everyone looks lovely online, but in real life, it often becomes clear someone hired a pro to utilize some posing tricks and/or used a bit of Photoshop to "enhance" their beauty. Naturally there are exceptions to this, I just mean in general.
Currently, I'm implementing BLS signatures in Go and Solidity. A couple co-workers are implementing a threshold ECDSA signature scheme from the paper announcing it. Last night we had a jam session with a cryptography professor at a top-10 CS school to discuss our system design.

Getting the opportunity to dive back into the literature, get involved with research, and still code has been amazing.
FIFA World Cup dashboard
If you want consistently interesting work you need to be proficient in two different disciplines. Computer Science isn’t enough. Interesting work is the product of being an interesting person.

If you are a computer scientist and say, a marine geologist, there is some work that only you would be able to do, and some innovations that only you can see, that plain CS guys knee deep in the CRUD cannot.
I could see HFT trading shops potentially buying these, especially if they come out with a Xeon version.
the problem is that many low-end and middle-end android tablets are based on Cortex A53 which is a slow in-order CPU (but very power efficient).... The Flash storage performance is also very important for user experience and is often left behind in reviews
Quite true.

People in FOSS friendly circles really don't get the games development culture, IP management or the contracting business related to ports.
I’ve come across a couple true extraverts recently, and it has reinforced the idea that there are introverted and extraverted personality types. Previously, I don’t think I fully believed that anyone felt recharged rather than drained being around people. Note that social, outgoing, highly-connected people can be introverts.

Because extraverts are more at home in a social setting than alone — again, hard to even imagine for an introvert — they will tend to choose being around people over being alone. Meetings at work. Drinks after work, followed by meeting friends. An awesome day involves being around other people from morning to night, and the next day they are right back at it.

Extraverts also do their processing by talking to other people, whereas introverts talk to themselves a lot more, hence the part of the article about problem-solving alone vs in meetings. Through this lens, the whole concept of a meeting ought to strike introverts and extraverts very differently. This also leads me to believe that introverts and extraverts each have unique strengths.
This is absolutely stupid and hinders usage.
The website is pretty fast
Creating PDFs with PyFPDF and Python
Which field in AI is untouched and has a huge potential in the future?
I did a biotech project as a college student for a cheap hourly rate. It was amazing and I didn't really appreciate it at the time. I've spent most of the last 20 years working in IT or digital marketing (building branded web and mobile apps mostly). I've had a handful of interesting technical challenges, but nothing close to working in biotech.
Road Trips Re-Enacted: Multi-video synchronization with FFmpeg
This sounds like a huge security hole waiting to happen if their software is able to arbitrarily take admin privileges.
From a user's perspective, zoom is broken.
"In addition, TCP supports “fan-in, This allows multiple connections to the same well-known port at the same time. ... This creates a security problem, because the server must rely on the source IP address, and source port-id (values that it did not create) to distinguish this connection. This is the source of many spoofing attacks."

I really don't see how "source port" is relevant in this section, the issues are all about source IP + the lack of source verification. Using node IDs without the lack of source verification results in the same issue, source port or not.

Most of the other points I agree with but they are written with an agenda, well summed up in: "The reader should be getting a sense of how what may have seemed like a good idea at the time is proving to be a cascading series of patches that increase complexity and generally introduce new problems."

As a network guy I'll say it's much easier to look back at the last 40 years with the view of how all systems are ethernet + IP + TCP/UDP today and say "well obviously this is dumb". The same would probably be said for RINA in 40 years if it took off (haven't read through how it works so I can't judge it). The point is you can't skip the middle 40 years in how it should have been done and provide a high level "just do <x> technology direction instead" as evidence why it was done wrong. You have to go back and describe the full alternative and how it would make sense each step of the way (or at least how the full alternative could be implemented today). If the idea is "we think we could do better" then the article should have been written in the form of discovery of what's broken today.

Could there be a few good improvements to how networking is done now that we are a bit further along in both knowledge and technology? Sure, plenty, but I've yet to see one that covers both all use cases, is actually possible to implement in hardware, and can be decentralized.
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PDF generation for us. Had been relying on phantomjs for years, but it has been a bear. Attempted to write something with PDFKit to avoid the overhead of hosting headless chrome, but the effort was too great for our small team. Using chrome we are able to build high fidelity reports with the same web components we use in the application's UI.
Interesting, I wonder if it has to do with the marketing side of things rather than development. They cannot develop a CPU in less than 6 months. I think it could just be that they want to have the last word, so people will talk about it for longer.
"First Atlantic subsea roundabout".

Wow! Seems to imply there's already a non-Atlantic subsea roundabout, but my Google-fu is failing me...
Yup, whenever I write one of these I need to spend some time on terminology. It's even more confusing now with Jupyter, as there is still much overlap between that and IPython.
> I still see them in video production a lot, but that's starting to change pretty quickly.

I think the Final Cut "Pro" X was the inflection point - the change is ongoing.
> Because chronic shortage of housing supply is not a problem for local government[0], it's a deliberate and rational response to the demands (including binding constraints like Prop 13) placed on local governments by the citizens of the State.

This is why America is by many people considered fucked.
If interested, I spent some time on a comment thread a few days ago describing how my experience leads me to believe the Notebook environment (not all of Jupyter / IPython, just the Notebook part) is actually only appropriate for a tiny subset of pedagogical or throw-away situations, and should be avoided most of the time and avoided in most of the cases it’s marketed for (especially anything having to do with ‘reproducibility’ or ‘exploratory analysis’).

< https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17202704 >
But can such a topic as energy actually mean anything real without it implying the eventual existence of mass..? :)
Well, the most common technical issue I ever have to deal with, I guess, is "this has to work for a huge volume of data," but it's not like it's day after day of hardcore optimization.
I like the idea. I think it would be an interesting development to counter the centralization in the big5.
GitSpoke?
Yep. I honestly thought Jupyter is just a rename of IPython until you said that. Now I have to go learn the difference.
Nice in-depth look at all the facets of this deal including the ToS stuff! I expect the most compelling bit will turn out to be the lack of anything nefarious happening after MS bought LinkedIn -- everyone thought the sky was going to fall then too...and it didn't.
>Sorry, what? Windows still has > 90% market share on desktop. If that isn't "user-based leverage" I don't know what is.

I thought that was addressed with this line:

>Windows remains an important platform in the enterprise and for gaming (although Steam, much to Microsoft’s chagrin, takes a good amount of the platform profit there), but the company has no platform presence in mobile, and is in second place in the cloud.

The 90% of users are largely enterprise (who don't go out and buy software on a whim) and Steam customers. Anecdotal, but the only reason I still have a personal Windows machine is to access my huge Steam library. I think a lot of gamers are in a similar situation. If my entire library worked on another platform (and all my preferred hardware), I would have very little reason to stay on Windows.
China's Alibaba Puts Solid-State Lidar in a Delivery Truck
Oh please, can you and all GP's stop with this childish nonsense. There are other places on the internet that are much better suited for these type of discussions.
Apple announce iOS 12 , things you should should know
Use system fonts [0]. You cut down the total payload size, and the user will already be used to it. Focus on the data and content, instead of design masturbation.

I swear, I don't understand this obsession so many people have with using custom fonts. One of the first things I do when I setup Firefox is disallow custom fonts.

[0] https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/system-font-stack/
It's overclocking if it's over the nameplate clock speed, regardless of who does it.
FastQL: Smart GraphQL Caching and CDN
Don't overlook all of the % commands, such as %edit. If you are familiar with emacs keybindings, it has a very good built in editor as well. You can also load snippets from saved files, and save your history to a file. Or individual lines to files using range type expressions. In short it is very easy to get code in and out of IPython.

Another great trick. Anywhere you want to debug or play in your scripts run `import IPython` and the run `IPython.embed()` and your program at that point with all its locals drops into an IPython session, which is nice.
Apple is so ridiculously ahead in the ARM chip market... imagine if they'd sell to 3rd parties and the single thread performance on these laptops was 2x. Makes me wonder if they are about to make the same move on the lower speed MacBooks.
Ads don't solely exist to convince you to buy a product. Some ads are designed to make you feel good about the purchase you already made. or to teach people who will never buy a product to respect people who do.
Got an email yesterday that pretty much said everything but "we're launching EKS tomorrow". It's really the only container-related announcement they could be making.
Sometimes its a third party seller running the ad; Amazon is making money.
I've owned my Volt for about a year now, it's frankly been the best car i've ever owned. I'm -shocked- that these things aren't selling better, on the used market it's probably one of the best values on the vehicle market today next to the leaf. I have the new gen with ~ 65 mile range in Florida. I visit a gas station -maybe- once every 3 months, and it's only when i'm doing a drive over to Orlando or the east coast.
I think that actually "boring" companies with "boring" products often have more interesting problems.
Timelens, an Open Source project for better video navigation
Uh. Sorry, did I get it right, Amazon is launching EKS for public access (as in "general availability") today/tomorrow?
Why would Amazon showing me a dozen other vacuums make me feel good about my purchase? How would a post-purchase ad teach me not to make that purchase I already made?