skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ok so how many people have built a house? how long did it take cost etc. I think we can do it in a factory not like Ikea with code and robots. Coder and house builder
Ask HN: What's inside Amazon's “Internet” browser?
How can it be a mere 2MB? I'm wondering if it works the same way Silk/Opera Mini do, using remote rendering.

I have a hard time believing they implemented a new browser engine in such little code - but if they did, I want to know :)

Info: https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/17/17249090/amazon-internet-web-browser-app-android-india
> However, sometimes knowing the agents of a corp well on a personal level can help in that process.

Exactly right. For example, there have been many stories here of people who are able to get a form of customer service from Google because they know someone who works there.
I was talking about the royal you: we. But more importantly, "when" the question was first asked doesn't change the nature of the question. Sure, you (we) can ask it, but it is no more insightful that the myriad of other metaphysical questions that have been asked through history that will never be answered because they lack a fundamental grounding in the shared experience we call "reality". Are there any blue reds? We can spend a millennia thinking about it.
Ask HN: What should the technical design for a front end feature include?
What should the front end part of an applications technical design represent and consider? With back end, there's the database schema, API endpoints, flow charts for processes. But with the front end, only recently has it become somewhat data heavy. What do you do when asked to submit a technical design as a front end engineer? For reference, at my employment design is a large part of being a senior developer, so I have to do something, I'm not sure what though, and have not been successful in finding examples online.
Right now, a house in Revere or Everett probably goes for about half of what a condo in Somerville or Cambridge would cost. So it is very location dependent. And of course, that was true in Somerville twenty or thirty years ago. The red line extension, the end of rent control in Cambridge, and the conversion of a lot of rental apartments into condos during the housing bubble changed Somerville a lot.
Wealth is very nice to have, but it does not insulate someone from suffering racism and sexism.
This is akin to how representative democracy is a bad form of government, but better than all the others that have been tried. Consumer reports has consistently noted that Apple laptops require the least frequency of service compared to any other brand.

https://www.consumerreports.org/cro/laptops/LaptopReliabilit...
> "... IRC has no real place in the world of someone hoping to preserve their privacy."

Why is that? IRC supports SSL, of course, and many IRC networks offer "cloaks" (to hide your IP address from other users) and/or permit connections via Tor.
It is because the suburban lifestyle has some hidden costs, and in the US those costs tend to be paid equally by everyone. For example, air pollution (both local and greenhouse gases), and road maintenance costs.
I did a couple Lifespring courses back in the early 90's at the behest of my dad - which was surprising given he is a staunch Roman Catholic - who found them enlightening. I too found them to be eye-opening. The experiential learning approach was profoundly effective.

E.g. one exercise conducted on the very first day - so that no one really new who anyone else was - involved 5 minutes of wandering around the room in silence, approaching another and looking at them for approx 5 secs. You then had to say one of two things: "I trust you." or "I don't trust you."

There was only one person who I labeled as untrustworthy. I vividly remember his image and that he looked like the stereotype of a used car salesman. However by the end of the seminar I found him to be a smart, witty, sensitive and caring individual. The exact opposite of my initial evaluation.

I knew that one shouldn't "judge a book by its cover" ever since I was little but that experience and others like them in those seminars really set me back on my heels. I still recall it when I have an initial adverse reaction to someone new.

Unfortunately after finishing the 2nd seminar the whole Amway/pyramid-scheme aspect of it kicked in and completely turned me off and I cut ties altogether. However I still think that I might be a little worse off for not having gone through that.
Have you tried Zig? [1]
I tried Rust, but found I made better progress with Zig, and I can see it being a good, incremental replacement for C.

[1] https://ziglang.org/
It doesn't matter whether his $8 was in the form of BTC or not, all he did was make an $8 loan. Sure, the loan contract might have stated he could've accepted BTC instead of cash at withdrawel, but that's completely irrelevant once the loan issuer entered default. At that point OP is obliged to accept JPY as restitution, per the bankruptcy laws of the relevant jurisdiction.
^"[IRC] client and it will work for years" ?
So you’re saying that exploiting desperate people is perfectly reasonable?
If you're interested in the Mac Pro, you should wait until Apple unveil their new model. They said last year they were in the process of redesigning it.
Instead of hitting our ingresses / load balancer, we made it so that webhooks hits a cloud functions, which then transform it to a cloud pubsub.

We listen to the cloud pubsub from a worker.

1) we don't manage it. We receive quite a lot of webhooks and it's nice to offload that
2) all of our webhooks are async. We just have 1 worker that handles it all, instead of provisioning a bunch of pods.
3) managing cloud functions is dope, since you can make it autodeploy from git.

10/10 would use again. Not sure about building a whole app around it tho
Netflix Fires PR Chief After Use of N-Word in Meeting
The first thing it still asks is:

>Are you looking for a software engineering position?

Answering "No" hides the "Continue" button. If you hadn't told me otherwise here, I would have had no idea you were including Ops.

I'll try "Yes" and provide more detailed feedback in e-mail.
This looks more like a case of entrapment. There was no indication that there is a line not to be crossed and this is a large public beach.

It makes me angry to see a guest of our country (yes Canada) treated this way by our neighbor. You people have to get your shit together and stop treating your friends like criminals.
Isn't this a great opportunity to sell us on your solution, or get our feedback? You don't need to reveal details of your approach, but what are the actual problems you see?

As a company that has built our most recent site completely on serverless, we've become familiar with some of the issues. Though I definitely would not consider it a no-go.
This seems very surprising to me. I'm running a ~$200 Moto G4 for a year and a half now and it has no visible scratches. I don't use either a case or a screen protector and I never have for any of my phones. In fact it looks basically exactly the same as the day I bought it. Sounds like a glass screen just is not worth it for me, no matter the number of apes.
Here's the whole guideline you're talking about-

> Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.

It's talking about how we all talk to each other. I think it's main purpose is not to lessen criticisms for corporations so much as to keep the discussion constructive.
Two Vortex Rings Colliding in SLOW MOTION
Sounds even more fishy
America isn't falling by any absolute measure (except inequality), it's just that other countries are catching up.
Some tangential thoughts: even though I like these popular science (physics, to be precise) books, I have hard times to imagine their writers as a real scientists. Tyson, Greene, Carroll, Kaku, Rovelli... So many writers author so many books about these hey-look!-so-fascinating! things. It looks like a bandwagon and more and more scientists (yes, physicists especially) are getting on it - like they don't have any important research to do, like they are so hopeless and desperate about the current state of physics and they stopped caring about it and found a proxy to monetize their knowledge. But hey, that's not a secret anymore - everyone knows about the crisis, from the Queen of England to the hounds of hell. Sabine Hossenfelder is a legend for me. A few years back, when I was taking a Physics101 class, even the lecturer almost begged for help after the last lecture at the end of the semester: "my fellow students, please, please, consider (to continue your career in the field of) physics. Physics is stuck. It needs new ideas, new theories, new minds. Please consider this." I was stunned. That was some real thing.
I guess the fast advancement of technology in the late ~100 years made even the most brilliant minds (relatively) lazy. They gradually stopped thinking, beating their brains out year after year and here we are. No serious discovery after the quantum theory. String theory? Yeah, gazillions of dimensions - good luck with that. Higgs boson, Gravitational waves? Come on, nothing revolutionary - we're still waiting for the revolution to emerge from (upgraded!) LHC. For me, they are cleverly and beautifully marketed (minor) findings. (Maybe some of you have heard of, some (if not many) of the top universities have teams working hard doing all the "scientific-marketing" for the Nobel Prize - it's a precious prestige win in this popular world we live in).

Minds get eroded by technology by heavily relying on it. And it's getting worse and worse by the distraction caused by all the digital "life" surrounding us, pulling and tightening its ropes every day. I imagine a true scientist as a monk. S/he doesn't think about writing a pop-sci book, appearing on TV and s/he got a distantiation even for interviews about her/his latest important research/discovery. "Monks" are needed more than ever for science nowadays.

Those were my humble 2 cents.
Their percentages get weird and
add to over 200% at this point

That's because you're treating that stat as an either/or condition, with an implicit heirarchy, but it's possible for multiple observers to report to eachother.

It doesn't follow a chain of Law Enforcement report > eclipses > Other Authority report > eclipses > Family report.

It can be any and all, and one cascading to another. So the stats overlap naturally, and cannot be summed from their silos.
The question we need to answer is: Was the incriminating data planted or not. Having a password manager on his phone is tangental to answer that question. After the computer and phone left his custody, either device could have had data modified. Unless he's got his data pinned into the Bitcoin blockchain, it's a pretty hard to show that it was planted. If it wasn't planted then it's really just about how the key was revealed.

P.S. The description does seem to describe a password manager:
"Specifically, the Cellphone Examination identified various passwords that had been input by the user of the Cellphone to, for example, access the phone, applications on the phone, and/or certain websites."
That's overkill, and a silly recommendation. Try these microfiber cloths:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B019O1RH4W/

They are thin enough to allow you to close the lid of your laptop while traveling, and stop and direct contact from the oily keys to the screen.
For some infrastructures and processes that may make sense. The problem for us was that when something didn't work as expected, it was very difficult to determine what was going wrong.
Twitter bought a company, then found out that is isn't production-ready because it doesn't handle customer data safely, so immediately shut down the service.

I wonder if that triggers any clawbacks in the purchase price, as Smyte was running a substandard service.
Philosophy shrugged: ignoring Ayn Rand won’t make her go away
Signal, keybase, iMessage all have a better privacy model.
Your implied comparisons are ridiculous.
You're using this website via HTTP, which isn't much different in age from IRC. Age and the number of people who worked on them have nothing to do with their usefulness; some ideas last, some don't.
After Volcano Eruption in Guatemala, Re-Creating a Truck Covered in Ash
Netflix Fires Chief Communications Officer Over Use of Racial Slur
> The internet can seem so intimate but ultimately it’s a thin view of an individual’s or company’s reality.

Perfect description of every “social” platform out there.
Huge numbers of people don’t graduate, and the people who don’t graduate are more likely to struggle to pay down their debts, so they might have higher debt burdens.

Also, why in the world would one want to exclude for-profit colleges? Kids get told to go to college, and the least qualified kids go to for-profit colleges. Excluding this group of students seems like cherry picking, and it really doesn’t seem reflective of the national story.
This is of course exactly what everyone with half a clue said would happen.

I remember multiple groups claiming the law limited the ability to make exploitative profits from victims, yet here we have a 300k treatment. It does not cost 300k to create the medication, we know this because the costs for the trials would be even larger than they already are.

The simple fact is saying “limit profit” ignores the immense power of a corporation to invent expenses (how much does IP cost?).

The reality is that this was only ever going to be used to exploit people. The data is not useful for a trial, and because it’s not in a trial then failures don’t get reported as part of the trial. Suddenly you can make a profit without ever proving it does anything at all.
“Supports” is the real non starter. “Requires” is what we are looking for.
"Are there any blue reds? We can spend a millennia thinking about it."

It's pretty obvious that you can have blue reds: they're called purples or violets. Just squeeze some blue out of a tube of paint, and then some red, mix them together and you get a blue red. You can also have a black white: it's called gray.

Anyway, I'd agree that one could ask any number of metaphysical questions, but it could be argued that only some of them would be considered "great". One (arguable) measure to use for the greatness of questions is how many people do they occupy, and how critical do they consider those questions. Whether one exists before birth or after death would be considered "great" by this measure, whether there's a blue red would not.
I find it quite questionable that a person who, in 2018, does not believe in the legal equality of gay people should be considered “honorable.”
I have spent the last year and a half building a completely serverless production service on Lambda, API Gateway, and DynamoDB (along with the standard auxiliary services like CW, SNS, Route53, S3, CF, X-Ray, etc.). It was a lot of work establishing new patterns for many of the operational aspects, particularly custom CW metrics and A/B deployments with Lambda traffic shifting, but in the end everything is set up nicely and I'm quite pleased with the end result. We're starting to ramp up traffic now by orders of magnitude (with many more to come) and it's soooooo awesome knowing the stack is pretty much bombproof. Another super-nice thing is all internal authentication and networking being controlled by IAM rather than security groups/VPC/traditional networking - that aspect alone eliminates a tremendous number of headaches.

My biggest complaints are probably DynamoDB eventual consistency (unavoidable when using GSIs), occasional CloudFormation funkiness (though no urgent prod issues yet, thankfully), CodeDeploy CW alarm rollback jankiness (which doesn't tell you which alarm triggered a rollback!!), and lambda coldstarts. But none of these are too terribly concerning and I have faith they'll get incrementally better over time, hopefully.

The biggest cautionary tip I have is we run all our Lambdas with the max 3GB memory both for peace-of-mind and because the underlying EC2 instances have significantly faster CPU. We were seeing weird timeouts and latency initially with <1GB memory, so I'd be hesitant to run the service if the extra cost of using the biggest possible instances is a concern, which for us it is not.

Another cost concern I should also mention is that we mitigate cold starts by running multiple canaries using scheduled lambdas (in addition to the standard canary role of generating a baseline of metrics and immediately detecting/alarming on end-to-end issues). We are effectively maintaining a constant warm pool which, in theory anyway, greatly decreases the chances customer traffic will hit cold starts. I'm not intimately involved with the financial aspects but I suspect achieving the same effect with EC2 would be significantly cheaper, at least with respect to infrastructure costs. I would guess, though, that the developer time savings achieved by massively reduced ops burden and overall system simplicity are probably comparable to the increased infrastructure cost, and very possibly hugely outweighing it.
I feel the same way, most of the actions on the 'world cup' feed/info (when you search for world cup) is slower than it needs to be.
Right, however relativity tells us that time is an actual, physical thing that can be affected by and affect matter.
Sure. There are a few things that could be done, most of which have been done in some form in other countries:

- Make it illegal to bribe politicians.

- Make it illegal for cities to restrict construction of new housing.

- Make it illegal to profit on speculation on housing.

- Make it illegal for employers to discriminate against people without a college degree.

- Extend Medicare to the whole population. Failing that, or as an interim, extend Medicare to under-18s, and repeal the tax distortion for employers providing health insurance.

- Repeal drug prohibition.
Houston doesn't have zoning, but it does have development regulations that accomplish what zoning codes accomplish in other US cities.

https://www.houstontx.gov/planning/DevelopRegs/
I've written and shipped numerous sites using Zappa for Python which makes deploying on Lambda/API gateway very simple. https://www.storjdash.com is entirely Lambda based (sorry for no real home page....you can read about StorJ at https://storj.io/)
Your comment is gibberish (I've read it 3 times and can't make head nor tails, but maybe I'm missing something).
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/when-did-girls-s...
While the parent post isn't phrased very helpfully, it raises a valid issue: beyond outcomes and people's retrospective explanations of those outcomes (which are, generally speaking, notoriously unreliable bases for forming useful theory), what are we actually talking about when we talk about "resilience"? What occurs differently such that one person develops this pattern and another doesn't? This essay sort of stumbles around these question, but ultimately falls back on describing resilience in terms that are more mythic than scientific. Admonishments like "own the fighter within" are what I expect from oily self-help hucksters, not credentialed psychologists writing in major publications.
Exactly this for me, too.

There's also an aspect of affordability to why I ended up in the suburbs (in downtown or midtown Nashville, I'd be in a one-bedroom or studio condo for what I paid for my three-bedroom house), but it's mostly because I like living in my own standalone house. I have a yard; I have a garage and a driveway; I don't have upstairs neighbors rolling bowling balls around on their floor at 2 in the morning.
It bears mentioning that he's said similar things during the Bush administration.
How would metric measures work in such a system? Or time?
That is sad. I really appreciated the way this sentence got at the essence of this tragic situation:

“The internet can seem so intimate but ultimately it’s a thin view of an individual’s or company’s reality.“

of course that’s true, but then when I think about it, it sure doesn’t seem that way day to day. We look out at the world in a way that is increasingly mediated by the internet, and so it comes to seem like the actual thing in itself.
I was working for EllieMae, to build their cloud platform. They were not happy with the performance of the product, though it reduced ops work.
Long time user of IRC and I never ever heard of irc.com till now. What is it for and what does it do???

I have been saddened to see the state of IRC declining year after year. I love the fact someone is trying to do something about it!
That's great, but that's not the essential point for us. with cuBLAS, there is no room for an output layout argument.

transpose is the only option.

cublasStatus_t cublasSgemm(cublasHandle_t handle,
cublasOperation_t transa, cublasOperation_t transb,
int m, int n, int k,
const float alpha,
const float A, int lda,
const float B, int ldb,
const float beta,
float *C, int ldc)
LA BioMed Research Improving Heart Disease Screening in Newborns Receives Grant
Mass produced cars, bread, and public water are all over 100 years old. It’s funny you only use ancient tech as counter examples for avoiding ancient tech.
Having owned the 3GS, 4, 6+, 7+, and now X the only one that ever had scratches on its screen was the 6+, and that was just one small scratch that was only visible in the reflection at certain angles. The X has held up great so far.
I very much share that sentiment, in that I rate "the nature of consciousness" and "why does the universe, why does anything at all even exist" as fundamental questions of a completely different class, perhaps even unsolvable.
Edit: Reading some comments here - this doesn't seem to be about 'recognising' or 'predicting' existing characters, but using a dataset of characters to create a character by itself (which probably isn't an existing character).

This is quite 'clever'.

I don't understand the example shapes at the beginning. They're not correct strokes. How does that work?

The about page has some neat made up characters.

But after trying a few strokes, and doing so more carefully, it seems if you put in a clear radical, the character is well formed, kinda; if you put in a squiggle, all you get is a doodle... that makes sense.

Inputting 口 or 艹 for example, vs a random squiggle. Take care to make it reasonable accurate.

About characters, incase anyone doesn't know: A character is basically a 2x2 grid where 4 radicals get placed (there are (about) 201 radicals in modern Chinese, Japanese kanji too I guess?). Sometimes 'cells get merged' so the left column of 2 rows is merged to contain 1 radical, and the right contains 1 or 2 radicals. Or 'add a row' can happen at the top, for example adding a 艹 above the 2x2.
Looks like F# but has a big design mistake in my opinion (which F# doesn't): the symbol '=' in a functional programming should be tied to comparison, not assignment. (The approach taken here is using "==" for comparison, which is less ugly than JavaScript's "===" but still ugly.)
this is only a problem if you believe elon musk has the intelligence of a 7th grader. He would be a poor communicator if those calls were just non stop technical jargon. He should simplify things for his audience and talk in language they can understand. The average newspaper only requires a 9th grade reading level. Maybe 7th grade is a bit lower than expected, but it's not far off from what it probably should be.