skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I always wondered if HTM spheres are a worthwhile solution for lower sized textures. You start with 8 equilateral triangles that make up the sphere and subdivide as needed. You could possibly use a square texture made of 8 right triangles that each need minimal distortion (as opposed to an equirectangular texture).

https://arxiv.org/ftp/cs/papers/0701/0701164.pdf
It was allegedly an overzealous automatic filter. As of late, Youtube has been behaving very aggressively towards any content creators who were, in YT's eyes, earning YT less-than-optimal money. Even if it is just an automatic filter in so many cases, their apparent complete apathy regarding the issue is very telling...
Wealth of millionaires surges 10.6% to top $70 trillion for the first time
Example of user that started some time ago creating free logos for OS projects:
https://github.com/Tobaloidee
Basing your current economic decisions on Adam Smith is akin to saying, "Why do we need traffic laws? No one wants to hit anyone else."
I'm saying that actually that bar is extremely high.

>Of course, an autonomous car would detect the speed zone change and the red light.

Would it? I think it's actually unclear that it would and besides this experience of yours is filling in for the place in your comment where you should be showing me the data that shows self-driving cars are safer.
Introducing YNAB’s new API
Well, it's getting made great again. In fact, it's almost halfway through the project of getting made great, ergo, it must be pretty good. By 2020 there'll be nothing left to do but to keep it great. Again.

http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/314750-trump-coins-2020...
I've had this question for some time, and you mentioned that you were present during the debate phase.

I wonder if I could ask if there was any mention of a solution to expand IP address space in a manner similar to how UTF-8 expands as needed?

I'm not a SME on low-level protocols, but it seems the jump from 32 to 128 bits was an ambitious leap to future-proof and maybe a small part of the reason adoption is slowed.
The common complaint against "new" vehicles and their drive-by-wire systems is that they functionally act as inertial compensators, dampening road feel.

If the roads were perfect, you wouldn't necessarily want them (day to day), because it diminishes the minute vibrations that make their way up to the pedals, into the steering wheel, etc., and those things give you feedback into what the car is doing that are invaluable.

Of course, the roads aren't perfect, and most of us aren't doing high-performance driving on them, and we don't need anywhere near that degree of feel, so the benefits of driving by wire far outweigh the cons of analog driving.
Good point. I guess we'd have to rely on Github publishing this data to get the full picture.
Yes, I think so, but the article is somewhat unclear. It mentions "NuSI would have no control over the pilot study’s design, operation, or reporting. He could build the study he wanted." But a couple of sentences later mentions that "The EBC researchers met with NuSI quarterly to finalize the study’s design and clinical procedures."

Assuming I'm reading between the lines correctly, I'm interpreting the sloppy writing there to mean that the study was to be done independently by EBC and the type/style of study was something EBC got to design, but the that specifics of the design were signed off by both EBC and NUSI. If that interpretation is correct, it makes NuSI then critiquing it a bit shady given they had already signed off on the design as being good before the study started and now when it didn't provide the results they wanted they suddenly had problems with the design.

To their credit, it doesn't look like they interfered with the reporting of result though.
So far, the bill is €1bn.
Interesting, thanks! I was basing my opinion mainly on an Economist article (IIRC), great to hear a first-hand opinion!
Buy and secure a custom domain through Netlify – Netlify
It's probably true and a marketing effort. Keep in mind that it's rarely averaging X/month, but they made X/month at their peak.

I had a great month in my previous business that was 2x all other months. If I wrote an article about that month, I'd probably seem way more profitable than I was.
How do you compare/compete against something like Azure Scheduler which gives you 500 jobs with unlimited executions (max 1 per minute) for $14/month.

The Azure service also supports logging (60 days), retry options, and advanced recurrence schedules (every other Tue, etc.)?
He has got himself a bolt hole in New Zealand (under dubious circumstances) if it all goes wrong, so I guess that’s backing himself. https://www.nzherald.co.nz/indepth/national/how-peter-thiel-...
Yeah, I'm subscribed to the podcast (the episode came out in early May). Collison is great on Twitter (https://twitter.com/patrickc ). Deep thinker.
I don't think I have a passion for "computer stuff", but I really enjoy the craft of programming (and related application design and experience design and general hacky problem solving).

When I was a kid, home computers were barely a thing. We had one, but I only played with it. I thought maybe I'd grow up to be an architect. I took a few programming classes in middle school (logo and basic), but I started messing around with web pages in high school in the late 90's--mostly for publishing, since I liked to write and draw. JavaScript code was relatively small and rarely obfuscated then, so I learned a lot by reading the source of pages with cool layouts or effects. Haven't stopped since then.

Turns out there's a whole field where you can design things to solve problems or create experiences and make them come into being just by thinking about them carefully (and writing down your thoughts). The feedback loop for satisfaction and learning is very tight compared to architecture.
https://i.imgur.com/i5wrCrR.jpg
tl;dr: Learn retail.

It's kind of funny that people will get advice to get CS degrees, take a boot camp, learn a language, etc. to execute on an idea, but for soft skills you never see classes for business or marketing recommended. People could take 2-3+ business/marketing classes in the time it takes to learn React from zero Javascript knowledge. Instead, people are told to sign up to Stripe Atlas or Shopify and Instagram. "...and then a miracle occurs."[1]

Imagine a bizdev person saying, "for me, programming is always the toughest part, any tips?" and the response being, "Oh, you should definitely sign up for Stack Overflow. Simplifies things quite a bit." This may reflect a conceit on the part of programmers that it's soooo much more complicated and important, and the business side is full of chads and beckys who talk too loud on speakerphone (yes these people are a cancer, but that's beside my point).

Biz/Mark has its own, shall we say, "Data Structures and Algorithms" to it, there's just no one set of books that everyone (...) agrees on. Even so, people have been selling fabric for thousands of years, there's not much that the internet changes about that, or many if not most other business categories.

1. https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4003/4633000725_8817dcedb9_b.j...
Yet this issue is on youtube preemptively blocking first party content by established organizations. This isn't Babby's First Copyright Violiating CS:GO Montage, this is content released by the same university that trained a chunk of youtube's employees.

The issues we are seeing can be easily fixed by some simple common sense controls on what levels of certainty are required to take down a video and/or channel that scale with how established the channel is, including requiring escalating levels of human review.

With the "advertiser friendly" issue, the same approach can be taken, topped off with a monetize time prompt or form that allows them to assert how advertiser friendly the uploader understands the video to be (weighted by the history of how accurate their answers have been in the past).

These are such solved problems, that youtube really shouldn't be having them.
That's a huge leap. Impulse control is an emotional/subconscious behavior, not a failure of planning. People with poor impulse control (most "stupid" criminals), can make plans but fail to execute them. Similar goes for ADD (which affects criminals and non-criminals).
Turkey's 'Mathematics Village': Changing education one equation at a time
> Next step in your journey of learning is to look up when the Musks left South Africa.

1989 apparently, 5 years before the end of apartheid.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk#Early_childhood
Vue, React and Angular (and many other frameworks) have enough critical mass that they aren't going away, and will continue to get regular updates. This, combined with how well the framework fits your particular use case and team, is all that matters. Why we focus on which one is "biggest" is beyond me. Biggest doesn't matter. Big enough does. Once a framework achieves that size, it can be considered for things other than personal toy projects, and all the other factors are what should guide your final decision.
It's easier to complain about everything than to take a stand. When you take a stand you expose yourself to risk of failure.
China only has to block rare earth metals from shipping to the US and Trump will cave with his tail between his legs.
This is a key tech behind personalized advertising: replacing actors in ads with anyone. From an Advertising Industry perspective, this is Holy Grail ingredients.
Anybody else starting to hate GNOME? I mean, I use it, but I feel like I use it despite a lot of things that they've actively done to make my life harder. This article distils some of their finer work.

From way up here in orbit, it seems the problem is leadership, in that it's way too open. Somebody can suggest a shitty idea, discuss half of the issues it and then four months later —without quorum— drop a patch to implement the whole thing. That gets accepted and before you know it you can't launch executables from Nautilus. See: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/nautilus/issues/184

I'm not saying Carlos shouldn't have some autonomy here. He's been running Nautilus for a few years now... But is it acceptable that just one person steers the most fundamental component of a desktop used by so many downstreams? I wonder how many of the other GNOME culls (https://askubuntu.com/a/286438/449) can be attributed to a couple of people with so little discussion.

I do abhor design by committee and trying to keep too many stakeholders happy can really lead to a product becoming flabby and inefficient, but interface decisions within GNOME seem to happen too often without any scientific rationale, let alone a consideration of how it might affect users.

Also slightly pissed that the major commercial desktop players (Canonical, SUSE, Red Hat, etc) aren't pushing back. They'd seemingly rather write their own stuff than feed into the running of the project. NIH.
Reading reddit politics makes me more knowledable than those that watch Fox News, nbc news, msnbc. I’m more well rounded and know arguments made on both sides.
I have a couple projects that are getting a decent amount of stars recently and I'm looking at the stats for the last two weeks:

- One has 3750 unique visitors, and 680 stars in 2 weeks

- Another has 80 unique visitors, 20 stars in 2 weeks
Ought to tell Torrentfreak and all involved. It's not a piracy filter gone wrong, it's monetization humans at Youtube.
Do you think that people who struggle to make ends meet think that prisoners have a better deal than themselves?
Black and white!!! I forgot about that too. I also read it about 100 times for The Sims
Not sure where exactly they're "so far ahead".

Cameras? Google is on par if not better with the Pixel.
Screens? Samsung.

The only area where I could conceivably say Apple is destroying the competition is the A11 chip.

As an overall package though, I'd say the other major players (Samsung, Google) are on par with Apple for phones.
Nobody "turned free software into proprietary software". He released some free software, then later he released other non-free software. He also explained his reasoning[0] - that developing the project as FOSS wasn't working out, for specific reasons he goes into, so he needed to try something else.

Honestly, this kind of thing is the ugly side of FOSS culture. I get why you were hoping he'd continue under the old license, but the fact that he didn't is no grounds to say he betrayed people.

[0] http://dev.aseprite.org/2016/09/01/new-source-code-license/
I hate this trend where things that exist to help us grow as humans (meditation, arts and humanities, exercise) are repurposed by corporate HR to make us into better (i.e., more efficient) workers.
Drug addiction is a disease, not a "bad behavior"
Can we agree that there are degrees of terribleness?

Most of the links that make it to the HN frontpage have honest, valuable content and are not mere clickbait, even if they are published by a company seeking to directly monetize their content.
We do have data on accidents and human interventions preventing accidents. It just points towards current generation self driving technology being much less safe than the average human driver. Selectively listing things which technology (often fairly simple technology like cruise control which doesn't pretend to have the intelligence to drive your car) is better at than humans doesn't change that, particularly not when it is easy to draw a similar arbitrary list of things which technology is inferior to humans and far from evident that it might catch up in the foreseeable future.
Hence the expression "to fly by the seat of one's pants".
One thing I've been wondering about wrt high-volume online shops: how do you protect your hands against the dryness of the cardboard boxes and papercuts? Is this an issue?
If only Elon Musk was the entirety of the Musk family you might have a point

I don't think Elon Musk is a monster compared to his father, it's not even close really. But he is building his fortune on the back of inherited money earned doing some really scummy and shady shit.
In the center of the lenses, the circumference resolution is a bit over 5120, but definitely less than 5760. Even at 5120, it is a bit overkill (and potentially aliasing) at the edges: https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/975198157838499840

You are off by a factor of 2 in your pixel calculation, because 5k x 5k is for a stereo pair of spheres. Equirect projections waste a fair amount, but compared to the 300% miss to get to 60 fps stereo, it isn't dominant.
http://www.vavatch.co.uk/books/banks/cultnote.htm

It was in his notes from '94 but mentioned in books along the way too, see the section starting with "megalomaniacal".
'Not as ironic as I imagined': the incels spokesman on why he is renouncing them
So, something built on the back of the mantra - "centralised services are bad", now needs a centralised custody and holding services because of security? I don't even.

Then you realise that this same community talk about how stuff like identity, real estate etc can be changed via blockchain. But oh wait, we need a centralised custody service to hold the keys to ensure no one hacks your identity or real estate provenance keys. It seems the whole point of blockchain is to ensure things are so complicated that no one understands it and it is so insencure that you need holding services.

I can't understand why will the "bitcoin as money for the whole world " actually happen?
Exactly - spiritual awakening might do just the opposite of making someone a contented worker.
I think that the single search box with consistent UX is the killer feature. Subscription is too, in another way. Alternatives need to address these; I believe federated video services / toobs are the only way to aim for the first. Subscriptions should be replaced with RSS.
... if they don't get capped early. In a less-positional game, the players are going to capture pawns to build an edge, not attack the queen immediately.
MIPS in Hand, AI Chip Startup Wave Computing Delivers First Silicon
I don't particularly enjoy these articles, but they're hardly unethical. Saying you make X/month is very similar to splashing company logos on your homepage. Service companies typically want to try to demonstrate that they're successful to attract more clients.

With startups/apps it's now popular to brag about your revenue. Keep in mind, this isn't profit, so I find the articles pretty useless. I could start a million dollar revenue company by losing money on each unit sold, but what's the point in that? (unless I'm VC-backed and have a long-term strategy for growth)

When someone writes an article about how much profit they've made per month, then I'll take notice.
Highly unlikely to be content marketing spam. The audience for this kind of post is completely different from the audience for the product itself.
I've tried Vue out and have pretty clear gains in productivity, personally. For me, it really zeroed in on the pain points of React.
Europe's Lost Generation?
Simply "not paying" taxes gets you a bill, not jail time. It's hard work to do the kind of evasion that gets jail time.
To me, React also has the killer feature of being "generic enough" that I can see directly migrate-able variants of it still being used in ten years. The backend may change, but the basic setup of JSX -> function transpiling with param-attribute equivalency is simple enough to be a new foundational structure.
>The ends do not justify the means.

The means are the ends. An organization that disregards safety during product development is not going to have the culture required to actually produce a product that improves safety.
I read this book -- typing/modifying the code as I went, and enjoyed it immensely. Like others in the thread, I'd recommend this book.
Blockchain: A technical primer
In a Detroit Train Station, Ford Looks for the Future
Show HN: Dot – Virtual Companion for iOS
We have somewhat different use-cases, but there might be something useful for you in here:

https://git.cse.bth.se/system/bertha/tree/master/usr/sj

My target use-case is deploying backend servers into minimal jails. The servers are single binaries written in golang and the goal is to minimize the attack-surface as far as possible in case I’ve left something exploitable in the server code.
Really? This whole thread is littered with people drawing statistical inferences from a single Uber accident.
I don't see how you can solve the 'financially illiterate people [will be led] astray' with some other metric. Profit is similarly useless without context (e.g. Is this reoccurring, or one-time?). Giving all the metrics you might care to can still lead financially illiterate people astray.
Actually, that's an interesting thought. I have a Gmail account I don't use much, but I almost never access it from the web. I only use it with a mail client. I never see any of the ads they would show if I accessed it through the web. I do wonder now if they'll cut it off. I've been trying to move away from using them at all anyway, so no loss if they do, but certainly an interesting idea.
No, not at all. It's good to vent! I hope your wife can find herself at ease soon. It's fucking shit to be like this
As a recent job seeker (and attainer), I can attest. React is multitudes more in-demand from an employment perspective.
Since I’m a paying YouTube Red customer, I filed a complaint.

I think if enough people write in, they’ll change their mind.
In usage, maybe. React is the "people are learning this instead of raw javascript" kind of default that jQuery became.

I hope it does the same thing that jQuery did, and that is essentially make itself unnecessary in a lot of ways. Take all the really good features of React and make them browser-native.

To a certain degree, this is already happening. Web components are inching closer every day.
Month of Life – Get out of your head
I am asking this sincerely, not sarcastically: who cares? Did he make specific dates/times with his predictions? Did he address the specifics of Apple's situation right now?

If you are studying the art of making a prophecy, leave it open ended and unspecific. It won't be falsifiable, and people will fill in the blanks with their preferred details.

And it doesn't help us with why some people are irrationally rooting against their own self-interest (Apple's contribution to the GDP, high representation in overall national savings), or why we are starting a trade war against the opinion of almost all experts (or what the motivations of the person starting this trade war are).

edit: and I should note, le plus ca change... "noblesse oblige" is an old phrase.
> Use whatever tool gets the job done.

That's the problem: there are so many tools/frameworks/libraries etc. with so much overlap that people don't know what tool is for what job anymore. And there might not be a real answer to that. When you have a situation like this, people tend to use proxy measures like github stars to figure out what tool to use. Sure, it might not be the right tool, but it's at least picking a tool, as opposed to being locked in constant confusion about which path to take. Sometimes the right tool is the tool you have.
Create a Blockchain Caller with PubNub and JSON RPC
Processors. Their processors are at least a couple generations ahead of the state of the art samsung devices, at least with benchmarks.

Their hardware/software integration results in browser performance (safari) that is years ahead of chrome/android on ARM hardware.

The benchmarks are out there.

Again, the hardware/software integration allows them to reach performance metrics faster than the others. This goes for their image processors and also their general CPUs for browsing.

In fact, their iPads are now faster than some of their Intel laptops.
why does this matter? (not trying to be argumentative. genuinely curious)
Let's thank god Apple is an american company paying a shitload of tax to america so they can support all the handouts you want the american gov't to pay for.

Companies like them are the reason we can borrow $20T at super low interest rates to continue the spend spend spend of the last 30 years while true parasites continue to scream "what can my country do for me" instead of "what can I do for my country".
Precisely because no one owns or controls Bitcoin, the true believers can't prevent the street from finding its own uses for it.
Lots of financially literate people exaggerate the significance of revenue numbers. It's a close cousin to EBITDA, often just a way to avoid admitting you aren't making money.
> If Uber prevents people from buying cars then Uber may actually be environmentally friendly.

How about the new cars that Uber is encouraging their drivers to buy with tantalizing financing?
Apple could single handedly bring the electronics industry back from the grave in North America. Maybe they should, instead of whining that their easy profits off of communist party handshake deals will vanish.

When the president of the PRC visits America, he visits Apple and Microsoft...
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/cp/reporters-no...