skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Companies that shut down open-source dev teams are at least usually honest that that's what they're doing at the time that they do it. Open-source projects that actively evangelise—by extolling their community and documentation, presenting polished websites, in-app screenshots and shiny video demonstrations—then fail to make an adequate effort to serve and relate to the userbase the project has intentionally drummed up are not being similarly honest. If you don't want to serve the users, quit or turn off the evangelisation.
Inside the Linker (2012)
Designing for Scalability with Erlang/OTP book is good resource. I mix Erlang with Algorithmia pay-per-use algorithms these days to drop in features like sales analysis.
William Gibson's Neuromancer continues to hold up well both for adults and teens. Worth a read or re-read.

Travel books can be a good fit for the summer, and Keri Smith's Wander Society is a fun pick.

I also like to make a random pick or two that I'd never normally choose for myself. My next random pick may be off this thread...

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At our local McDonald's there are 9 kiosks and yet no one is ever at one. The lines at the human cashiers are as long as ever.
Amazing work! I'll be following along keenly... and glad to know there's an exhaustive approach being taken to figuring out if anything else was affected
Yes, I do think it must have something to do with that. There is no good technical reason why they would not have one.
Demystifying the Dark Web: Peeling Back the Layers of Tor’s Onion Services
He's asking for two papers to demonstrate that it is worth delving into the literature of an entire field. It's not clear that it is even meaningful to ask how it applies to the work of any particular individual author within the field.
Everything you’ve described are lights that can shine in the dark. But that’s not what the TouchBar is. The TouchBar can only be seen when the laptop screen can be seen, and is really dim (certainly dimmer than the laptop screen). The TouchBar can’t ever be a light shining in the darkness because it would always be drowned out by the laptop screen.
> We watch, we note abuses, they launch internal investigations, and they conclude that nothing was wrong.

And then, occasionally, there are protests in the streets, people start running for office pledging to fix the abuses, we vote for them, and things slowly start to change.

Alternately, sometimes we sue them, or else a state or federal attorney general sues them; the matter ends up in the judicial system, and the behavior is reviewed by an independent judge – albeit only for violations of law, not of sense.

As avenues for redress, both of these are highly imperfect, with well-known limits and failure cases; but they’re not nothing.
Yes. I’ll get them up soon.
GCP is 2 years behind in versions and the funky setup around connections is a hassle to deal with. The number of connections is limited and not configurable, and the default way to connecting is to use the Cloud SQL Proxy which is a separate binary/service you have to run to connect.

Public IP access is available but that means going through the public internet, and also means you have to whitelist each individual IP accessing it, which is hard or impossible when trying to use ephemeral or private-ip-only instances.
But they could potentially use you for more and users don't have insight into whether or not they do or if it will change.
the divine comedy by dante. some regard it as the greatest work of literature of all time.
Heh. From the article:

Does all of this hold for my papers, too? Of course. The most I can claim is that I am hyper-aware of my own epistemic frailty, and have a litany of self-imposed safeguards. But I totally understand why my critics would look at my best papers and say, “Meh, doesn’t really prove anything.”
Your fuzzy memories from decades ago don't amount to evidence. A cursory search tells you this wouldn't even be legal for Blockbuster to do.

The studios have alternate versions of movies and some of the TV edits may have gotten into the Blockbuster stock but your portrayal of Blockbuster as being the originator for reasons of censorship are wrong.
Former macbook pro user here. I currently use a T480 with the 72wHr battery. Web Development and programming I pull about 20+ hours of battery life. Using i3wm under Fedora.

Absolutely gorgeous machine.
Did you ship anything in Smalltalk? (I didn't, when I was using it.) If so, how? Ship the whole image?
Not saying you are wrong about the terminology, but if local photons are "produced at the source", the use of "local" seems to be redundant.

When would a photon not be created at the source? What is a non-local photon, only CMB photons?
He should have done that before creating Python3
The article limits itself to discussing “empirical paper”s not theoretical papers.

In a theoretical paper, it’s possible to make statements that stand on their own merits. In empirical science, a single paper is never really enough to support an entire field. Empirical sciences generally rely on the development of scientific consensus.
It depends on the business needs. Generally what happens is a developer will notice that something is going to become a problem and start considering solutions, long before the app becomes unmaintainable. It's all driven by what the application needs.
I worked with the creator of the first easter egg, David Ramsey. In the early 80's he added a "Zebra Lady" to Mac Paint. It made a lot of press when it was discovered.
The diversity should be built from startups rather than by big corps vacuuming small population. But then diversity is also about not having “fair share” of high paying jobs. For example no one complains about lack of diversity in non high paying industries. See https://www.bls.gov/cps/cpsaat18.htm

Agriculture, mining, constrction, transportation are much worse in gender diversity than tech (over representation of male) but you never hear those stories. Similarly health and education are over represented by females by 3:1 and no voices in needing more males there.

Building more diverse statups are good entry point as diverse leaders there will help define tomorrow rather than being being a diversity cog in bug company.
Yeah, this space feels pretty saturated already, and people seem to use the same topics / presentation / ordering over and over. What a ton of duplicate effort!

It'd be nice to see a course try to put its own spin on "machine learning" and 1) present standard topics in an unusual way and 2) include topics that intro ML students might not normally see.
Is there some missing repository you need to add to the Windows Ubuntu? Every time I've tried to install some one-off tool Stackoverflow has suggested (yesterday it was ncftp, the other day it was some ssh configuration, ifconfig isn't there) apt can't find it.
Our Wal-Mart has self-checkout kiosks. It's usually convenient, unless you've got things to weigh.
This is a good perspective from a smaller user. As said before, the core platform is technically fantastic with the fastest and easiest compute, storage, and networking around. Some downsides mentioned already have options in alpha/beta (like more updated UIs, products like memorystore, filestore).
The problem with teaching math is you must give them the tools that were created last, so they have the tools to keep up with math. They then must use those tools to understand and prove what they first had to accept as true, lacking proof.

Tend to think about constructive mathematics for this particular insight.
"Tailspin" by Steven Brill. It talks about how the recruiters for the Ivy League decided to admit people based on merit instead of connections, creating a de facto meritocracy and how this meritocracy has changed the USA in the past 50 years.

A friend gave me the book. I was skeptical of the premise. By the third chapter (the 70's, basically) I was like "I remember that!" "Yes, he was in all the newspapers!" "Yes, that was 'the greatest financial disaster since the Great Depression'!" (I've lived through three of those, btw.)

Interesting premise, good scholarship (he traces Citizen's United back to the college paper written to impress a college prof by a fellow who ended up clerking for SCOTUS judge who was the swing vote for Citizen's United (Kennedy?)).

Interesting read. I know it sounds like a grandiose conspiracy theory but he has actual facts (that I experienced growing up) to back him up.
That's from the maintainer of pypi. Pypi shipped SSH Decorator with malware that stole SSH keys. Another case that would have been entirely preventable with package signing. I've concluded they don't know what they're doing either.

I'm not surprised if you don't know about it, because it was [dead] on HN as soon as it was posted... which should tell you a bit about the echo chamber you're in here.

https://imgur.com/gdUFToP
It's only got a max 16GB ram though???
Nucor still exists, Bethlehem does not. They sat on their market leadership, had a rudderless and massive management staff. I am talking about the companies, not the workers. Steel is so critical to civilization, it is crazy we lost it as core competency.
For a nonfiction book, The Millionaire Next Door was a game changer for how I though about wealth accumulation. It's the findings of a statistical analysis of the life and habits of millionaires.

Deep Work had the similar effects on my work habits as the former did on my finances.

If you're looking for a fun fantasy read, Elantris by Brandon Sanderson is one of my all-time favorite standalone novels.
The Bitcoin Standard, by Seifedean Ammous (just published). Incredibly fascinating journey through the history of money, past present and an outlook with digital currencies in mind.
Instructions unclear: hard drive now stuck in VHS player.

But seriously - imagine you had a blu-ray disc, and a CD player. How many years wasted trying to figure out how that laser and that control circuitry could possibly extract data from that surface? Yet clearly they're intended to go together...
Do the Leaf batteries have a decent cooling system, or are you going to run into problems fully charging a battery due to heat?
I lead an open source effort which is fairly large in a relatively niche field. While most users are awesome, it never ceases to amaze me how rude some people can be. Because something isn't exactly the way they want it we're the worst, dumbest people in the world. Hey I'm happy to refund the money you spend purchasing my product.
Amen. This is exactly what is wrong with many countries. In india for example tgere is caste based reservation purely for political gains as its easier to split people emotionally over race (easier to see) etc than over money. Same thing here. If some section of population wants c suite positions, they stir up need for fair representation of that section everywhere.
I also "perform complex simulations and handle massive data sets" and often do mockup on my laptop (where power is nice) before shipping it off to the cluster, and often truck the results back to my laptop for analysis.
> American steel consumption has declined about 40% per capita.

I wonder how much of that is from import auto sales? Or an overall drop in civic projects?
“NPM inc are complicit in this”
Thanks so much for the reply, it saved me a few hours of trying it out at the very least! Of course, I hope there is support for Memorystore on App Engine eventually. Thank you.
Blackmagic eGPU – Thunderbolt 3 external graphics processor
It's like a game of chicken. Those in control of society make things worse and the people at the bottom either suck it up or upend the table in response to this new social contract.

People naturally want a stable peaceful life and will suck it up.

But one day this bluff will be called.
I think you are really missing the point here. "How", "why", and especially "where" quantum computers outperform classical computers is a question of foundational importance in the field of computational complexity, and that field itself is fairly close to the foundations of logic and math.

The practical implications of this algorithm are just a side note for many of the people working on this research.
aka "ops"

The idea that this will kill "devops" is ludicrious, because devops doesn't actually replace job titles. We have a "Devops engineer". He's an ops engineer, with "dev" in front of his title because he codes in perl and python (...like an op). Visual Studio is a "DevOps Environment". I don't know what this means. It likely means that it can provide end-to-end integration in your development environment, which was previously an IDE. The idea behind devops being a raised layer of abstraction is fine, but we don't really need a new word for it, and as history has shown, raised abstractions do not lower. We're going to end up with "devops" until we find a new buzzword.
Is that because they are all online? After all, how many comm 101 courses are taught every year?
It appears all publishing keys have been revoked? We don't use eslint at work, yet all our publishing keys were revoked.
Aw, alright then.
Built in per-site custom stylesheets, much like Stylish (sans spyware). The only browser I’ve seen that does this is the now barely maintained OmniWeb, which is a shame. It’s such a basic feature that one shouldn’t need an add on for it.
Yes, and anything that warrants higher security doesn't happen from a Dev machine, and isn't possible with just creds on a Dev machine.

They are horribly insecure by nature. They almost all have root, they download and install tons of software, they are often portable, and us developers aren't infallible and will eventually fuck up.

Systems that require better security won't rely on any one or even 2 dev systems, and yes that requires more time and effort, but it's better than the alternative of hoping all of your developers never make a single mistake.

It's not perfect, but if you have a perfectly secure system, I'd love to hear it!
That's what I understood at first, but what seems to be the case is that light from deep space undergoes "red shift", and by the time it reaches us, visible spectrum has been shifted into x-ray spectrum. The "false color" is just a correction back to almost the original visible spectrum. The degree of red shift is how we determine distance.
I think "tourism" is probably a bit unfair, but it sure wouldn't hurt to see more people go the way of D. E. Shaw.

It's really sad that the only ways to fund science seem to be charity and war.
System76 Oryx Pro – First Impressions
I'm really enjoying Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn trilogy. I started listening to the audiobook version on my commute to work.

It's a fantasy series with an incredibly detailed, logical, well-thought-out magic system and world history.
You are severely misrepresenting what this work is about. As I mentioned in a sibling comment, this work is exciting for purely intellectual reasons. The applications to Amazon's business model is a side note.
In your case, it only means you owe Google, but not the other user.
On the other hand, I do this all the time on my laptop, and have found having some more RAM or a couple more cores to be something that would make my life actively easier.
The other partial fix is to stop allowing truthy conditionals. Only allow Boolean values and the only time you it wrong is when you’re assigning to booleans.
If you know basic undergrad probability/statistics/linear algebra (matrices, vectors, eigenvalues) you can do CMU's graduate course in ML that is intended to prepare PhD students to understand research papers in the field

(Includes recorded lectures) https://sites.google.com/site/10715advancedmlintro2017f/lect...

CMU also has an 'Applied Machine Learning' undergrad course that is paywalled fully unfortunately, but they use the text: Witten, I. H. & Frank, E. (2005). Data Mining: Practical Machine Learning Tools and Techniques, second edition
Using select: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Select_(Unix)
Well, I can understand optimizing rendering speeds for computer games because the general trend has always been wanting ever more realistic graphics.

However, it's surprising to see people want more rendering speed on their text editors, especially to the point that it would excite them. It's something I've never considered them lacking for their purpose. However, that's probably because I've (nearly) never had the need to handle text files with such characteristics (I usually use it for code and configuration files; none get even close to 1MB), and so to me the text editor is among the fastest, lightest programs I typically run.

rch mentioned scientific data. I guess it's a valid point that there are people working with huge datasets in a practical text file format, and if there are people that can work with huge images or videos on their editors, then why can't text editors do the same.
I am new in machine learning and have difficulty to understand the equation. I finish 2 courses from Andrew Machine Learning Class from Coursera, I understand the flow, concept and knew how to write those equations/algorithm but it always bugs me that I don't understand those equations. Do you guys have any suggestion that where should I start for learning those equations/maths online?
Dihydrogen Monoxide and Cancer
All-electric and autonomous logging truck unveiled
A couple months ago, building projections for a rabies elimination program while sitting in a hotel bar in Zambia, I was pretty pleased I wasn't relying on a server.

Edge case, sure, but shrug
Yeah, I always ask our user stories to have a 'background' section explaining the problem and reason for the feature request so it can help us understand the importance and purpose of the feature.
Use VS Code as IoT Hub Device Simulator – Say Hi to Azure IoT Hub in 5 Minutes
That's the point. Skyscrapers are a rarity in Paris - now go look up the density of the city proper.
A related-work section would really help, too.
This is fascinating, but wouldn't this be the case on older MBPs since they have ambient light sensors?
Single-Click Exploitation of Apple Safari with CVE-2018-4192
Harry Potter and the Reason to Read Another Book
I am also bad sighte, apple's zoom is very superior. Switched to Windows, Linux, and then back to mac for mainly the accessibilities features -- using an 8 year old macbook for your same reasons (big screen, no touchbar, please)
They did not remove the $1 bill when the redid the $1 coin.
1. That's just so wrong. CoffeeScript came out 9 years ago. The transpiling craze peaked years ago, and most of the good features of all those other languages have been pulled into modern ES. There's only a few of them left in somewhat common usage and mostly because they're niche (Haskell-like or Lisp-like). TypeScript solved a totally different problem, it's just a layer of type safety on top of JavaScript, it's actually still JavaScript, so if people like TypeScript then they like JavaScript.

2. That may be true, but that doesn't mean wasm can take over JS in terms of features. For example it still has no GC, which for some things (embedding Doom) may be good, but for general app development it's better to have a GC and the other high-level features JS has that wasm doesn't.

3. That just means some people want wasm to take over, for that one specific reason. It doesn't mean it's actually going to gain traction to evolve in that direction.
I hope that the Kubernetes Steering committee will continue its good work to keep the Core tidy and simple.

What really makes me afraid are the thousands of complex addons that are being pushed by the community (For example, Istio, Networking addons, etc etc). Those should be kept outside and it MUST be made clear they are definitely not needed for a normal installation of Kubernetes.

Istio for example, is such a political brainwash power-move by some bigger companies that benefit from it. I believe less than 5% of the use-cases really require Istio, still it is being pushed as something you should always install in your cluster. This is bad for everyone.
> There's a term for this but I forgot what it is and don't care to go spelunking to find it.

sqlite calls this "branch coverage"

https://www.sqlite.org/testing.html#statement_versus_branch_...
Is it because telco was a lot different back then with all the clecs and the bells sharing co space?
I still dont understand how could anyone at Apple approve this change in loudness. Its not subjective, you can literally measure it.
What is your math experience/background? In any case, for the average case, this course is probably the best for those who want a slightly deeper understanding of machine learning than offered by Andrew Ng's courses: https://work.caltech.edu/lectures.html
> People will realize that giving developers the keys to the kingdom and total freedom over their application is a terrible idea. (And smart developers don't want total freedom.)

Sadly, I don't think it's actually developers that were pushing for this "freedom" (with which comes responsibility, hence it makes sense that it would be unwanted), as such.

Rather, I place the blame with managers and with (fellow) sysadmins for not embracing, empowering, or forcing (whatever it takes) the aspects of the original DevOps cultural movement to have Ops bring the equivalent [1] of a production environment to every developer.

> Containers provide isolation and immutable infrastructure

I thought they weren't even (necessarily) immutable. If not, then maybe they're merely immutable-through-practice, but that's as unsatisfying as configuration management systems creating reproducible deployments that lack traceability [2].

[1] In terms of tooling for things like builds, deployment, and management (especially of dependencies), not necessarily full hardware capacity, although at one place I did provide each developer with a copy of yesterday's production database on their own, personal bare-metal database server, less "beefy" than the production hardware.

[2] is that the right word? something like chain-of-custody for code and/or configuration.
I'm a huge Brandon Sanderson fan, but find that Mistborn is a better entry point for people these days - though it (and the Cosmere) are among my own personal my all-time favorite fantasy books, so perhaps I'm biased in that.
> Some people on Internet are reconsidering a second vote for the Brexit

That really isn't a fair comparison. This is about one person, not two opposing groups.
For sci-fi recs: I recently read The Three-body Problem by Cixin Liu (a trilogy) and thought it was really good.

Also just started another sci-fi trilogy with A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge which has some really fun and interesting (if hand-wavy) ideas about deep space physics.