skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does that mean all console app makers should also be employees of Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo since you either have to sell your app digitally through their store or even if you sell your app on a physical disc it still has to be approved by the platform owner and they get a cut.
>Suppose I'm a spare time Uber driver.

The problem with that supposition is that it is just that. Rather, it's an outlier and just Uber's marketing of "gig economy", not a serious contributor to the kind of volume that has driven their growth and supported their actual business model.

Especially in the densest, highest-demand areas, it's a stretch to believe there's an army of couch-surfers with garages (or other reserved parking spots) just waiting for the surge pricing to increase enough to go out and pick people up.

> That turns it back into a micromanaged standard wage-slave job

I have seen this complaint already, with respect to Uber's policies and practices.
Yeah, octonion multiplication is alternative.
I had to think about that for a bit. I've tried to Google it to better understand it. I am not immediately coming up with an elucidation.

Anyone got a link to a quick and dirty explanation of how the vacuum of space would impact this?
Fb's research in computer vision has produced works like training a neutral net on large datasets in 1 hour, instance segmentation neural nets, and many more, and made the code and research public with nonrestrictive licenses. These are pushing the state of art! Check out the work yourself and then come back and criticize these scientists if you feel that their work is a net negative on the world.
... and the multiple minute compile is only for _release_ builds.
Ah, the goal makes sense. I would suggest that it’s not so bad to have a controller node fan-out and fan-in queries, as long as the database can handle many concurrent queries. Essentially you’re distributing the work evenly across nodes but you don’t have affinity for a particular node. Yes, there is more latency (it is as slow as the slowest connection) but it is endlessly scalable. But, I am sure I missed some benefits from localizing calculations to only a node or two.

In the scheme above, by the way, it DOES localize searches on one shard. Essentially all relations to a stream are on the same shard as the stream. And each center+radius has one associated stream and therefore the search takes place on one shard.
What if they used a pseudonym or somebody else's name?
https://www.unm.edu/~lkravitz/Article%20folder/periodization...
https://breakingmuscle.com/fitness/a-simple-guide-to-periodi...
https://barbend.com/3-most-common-types-periodization-when-t...

My comment was based on surprise that after 10 years of training you have yet to incorporate any sort of periodization considering it is a cornerstone of sport science.
Hardly. Homeland security and domestic stability requires a level of international influence. China sees the same value in information as the USA and aren't going to pass on opportunities to collect (or implant). To expect otherwise is incredibly naive.
Check out the username. Troll/novelty account.
Read up on the Pitesti experiment.
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My God this makes me ashamed at being European.

Who are these guys and in which century do they think they are? Innovate and compete or resign and make room for others who can do it. I'm sure there are enough European engineers who can build reusable rockets.
When I worked at Xero we had lots of customers using the API to do exactly this. That said, I see value in having a api independent and agnostic from the accounting backend / saas itself, but probably more relevant for larger integrations (where the cost of switching out the integration would be extremely costly). This would also be valuable for franchises or software vendors, who could build the integration once, and then have Amatino handle the integrations to each accounting system.

The primary issue becomes ensuring the integration to the accounting systems stays high value, rather than lowest common denominator. Ie: ensure reports are usable, accounting records are in a usable format (invoices, credit notes, etc rather than a bunch of journal entries), payments are applied, bank accounts can be reconciled. If that can be nailed I feel this has value.
PeerTube, the “Decentralized YouTube”, succeeds in crowdfunding
They know the recipe, we are searching for one
Yes, and this is a bit obvious, but reals, complex numbers, split complex numbers, quaternions, octonions, sedenions, can all be represented as matrices of the appropriate form.
The other side is not innocent either. It’s called “regulatory capture”. The entrenched interests - the taxi companies - have a vested interest in the status quo.

It’s similsr to the auto dealers preventing Tesla from selling directly.
While death threats are obviously an overreaction and should never be done, he clearly doesn't realize what he's done either...

> We definitely messed up a whole bunch of communication

You lied at pretty much every interview to increase your revenue at launch.

I know a lot of people's advice is to fake it till you make it, but doing that in the middle of the spotlight is obviously just begging to get your day ruined.
Of course. I tend to use Python and I dabble with R - all for personal use. However, I've seen SAS in a lot of places. It's huge, yet barely anyone mentions it!
He grew up in the Pyrenees mountains and has spent much of his life since exploring the world professionally. He's not missing out on experiences.
I was just wondering the other day if anyone has ever tried to "fake" the moon landing with modern technology. Just see if you can pull it off. Hollywood can't do it as far as I can tell. Space movies aren't believable as real, even the best ones.

I think it would be an interesting mythbusters. I know they already did one on it, but that's not quite the same thing as what I'm saying.
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If you're familiar with rust syntax, that function is readable:

A function 'transmute_lifetime' that takes a tuple of generic type T with lifetime 'a and returns a T with lifetime 'b...

And then the code itself, beyond the function signature, is trivial destructuring matching.

If you're not familiar with the syntax of a language, of course it won't be easy to read.

perl and bash can rapidly devolve into symbol salad if you don't know them. If you don't know es6, javascript's spread and destructuring assignment syntax can look every bit as strange.

That all being said, the point of this rust code was to be a minimal example. Minimal reproducers are often nonsensical and unidiomatic, which helps put this in further context.

I think the original un-minimized crashing code was this: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/52213#issuecomment-...

That's clearly more readable, and that's what more typical rust looks like.
No, it's Basic Business 101. It's called managing cash flow and a balance sheet, and this sort of arrangement would drain them of all their cash without any benefit to the company. A company with no cash employs 0 people and then nobody wins.
Sean Murray breaks his silence on No Man’s Sky’s development, launch
No, but he died at 85 years old.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Mellanby
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They do it precisely because of people who share that idea with you. Minimum wage may increase unemployment a small amount but the positive effects are ensuring that those people who have the lowest paying jobs are able to afford to live. Similarly with unemployment and welfare. For many people losing their jobs or taking a pay cut would mean becoming homeless or being unable to feed themselves.

If you think that there are enough charitable people in the world to voluntarily sustain you through the end of your natural life, I invite you to try it out.
Probably in part for this reason and others, it was Franklin Roosevelts's opinion that businesses that cannot survive unless they paid substandard wages

But the question isn't necessarily "survival of the business". It's whether or not the business can afford to bring more people into the fold, based on an arbitrary fixed-point in terms of how much they can pay.

Maybe I'm running a company that's humming along, profitable but only marginally so, paying 100 workers some rates ranging from exactly minimum wage, up to $WHATEVER. Now I'd like to hire 5 more workers to do some fairly low value manual labor, but if I hire them at minimum wage, it pushes the company into the red. Where does that leave us? I can:

1. Hire the workers at less than "minimum wage". This creates the most jobs, but has the downside of paying people less than what some people feel that they "should* earn.

2. Hire fewer workers, but at minimum wage. That's fine for the 2.5 workers I do hire, but how does it benefit the 2.5 that I don't hire?

3. Do nothing. This benefits none of the 5 workers I might have hired.

4. Buy a machine that does the kind of work those workers would have done, don't hire anybody new, and then lay off 10 workers once the machine is up and running.

5. Reduce costs somewhere else in the business, to allow for hiring the 5 workers at minimum wage. This might or might not be viable, depending on lots of other details.

6. Hire the 5 workers at minimum wage, and raise prices, passing the increased cost on to my customers. This might work, but again, there are a lot of variables in play here. And this negatively impacts my customers.

Obviously there's a lot of nuance to all this, but my point is that it's a bit Pollyanna'ish to think that jacking up the minimum wage results in a better outcome for everybody.
But how does a suicidal pilot apply to airport security?
Seems I paraphrased the article poorly, here are the actual key points:

1. Never assume you know more about a design than the company that made it.

2. You don’t know the problem that the design is solving.

3. Don’t jump to conclusions until you have data to back it up.

4. You don’t have to be right to be a good designer. You just have to listen when you’re wrong.

5. Always test. Always.

6. There are no UX best practices.

In general I tend to align with you though. Do right by the user, and its probably the right thing for your company too!
I thought that was the most interesting part of the article. Anyone know where I can learn more about how unreliable it makes carbon dating and what far future civilizations will be able to learn about when/how our civilization lived?
Half the schools on the list are publics, and none of them are Ivies.
> I even buy gasoline this way, because prices at the pump seem to change almost randomly. I buy $25.00 at a time. So I buy more when the price is low and less when the price is high.

At the risk of a joke flying right over my head, I'll ask how this works. Isn't your gas usage mostly inelastic? Are you going to drive to work less or to the supermarket less because your tank is almost empty due to gas prices being higher? If you're thinking about planning a road trip, do you say "nah, only got half a tank of gas" due to your $25 not buying you as much? Wouldn't it be easier to just look at the price of gas and decide based on that?
which part is the interesting technology?

the train or the tunnel?
Good to know. So you you weren't asked any algorithmic leetcode-style questions or questions testing that you have basic knowledge of your field (e.g. tell me what a random forest is)? Doesn't sound like it. It was more focused on your research?
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This was really neat to read. The style reminds me of Ted Chiang (the writing, not the "interactive"ness per se).
That's incorrect.

It would have been possible to implement reified generics while preserving backward compatibility, Neal Gafter had actually a proposal to do just that.

In the end, erasure won simply because it's the superior solution.
You can use Trllo for this as well. Each board has an associated email which converts any messages sent to it into a card.

I've created a hotkey for my email client so any email that may require an action can easily be added to the Inbox list on my GTD Trello board.

It works really well as long as I am maintaining it.
> Facebook is trying to decide whether it's an IRC server, or a newspaper. I think the problem is that they want to be both.

You hit the nail so hard on the head with this statement, Facebook has come to a point where it cannot just be a "traditional social network" if it wants to continue to expand within the stock market and grow globally--it needs to be THE ONE TRUE source of information, discussion, media, news, politics, small community groups, advertising.

What used to be a cool place to check on your friends, their interests, and what they are doing has turned into attempting to be a little bit of every single site so much that users "shouldn't have to" go anywhere else.
Alain Charmeau spelled this out explicitly to Der Spiegel:

> Charmeau said the Ariane rocket does not launch often enough to justify the investment into reusability. (It would need about 30 launches a year to justify these costs, he said). And then Charmeau said something telling about why reusability doesn't make sense to a government-backed rocket company—jobs.

> "Let us say we had ten guaranteed launches per year in Europe and we had a rocket which we can use ten times—we would build exactly one rocket per year," he said. "That makes no sense. I cannot tell my teams: 'Goodbye, see you next year!'"

http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/technik/alain-charmeau-di...
It's not just a matter of the game not living up to marketing, or expectations being set too high. On release week, after the game went gold, the guy (and it's not a pr guy or whatever, he is part of the actual dev team, and creative lead) was still doing live interview lying about major features such as multiplayer or fleet battles. The first "release" trailer on the steam store page was showing lots of things that weren't in the game, too.

See bribroder link to the reddit page for an idea of how far what they claimed they sold was to what they were actually selling, and it will help you see that as a cautious gamer, if you actually went out of your way to specifically check for features shown on official release video and/or answered as yes/no question by the game's lead, you would still be fooled. The reddit comment matches direct interview answers with major missing features.

When you see two factions doing some major warring in space, and the guy present it as actual gameplay that's in the game's build and says "Like here, we're at the battle between two warring factions. I could join in, I could take sides." and then there is no fleet battles anywhere in the game, I have a hard time blaming the players for their expectations.

I strongly disagree with the crazyness displayed by a lot of people, and those that go as far as death threat should be refered to the police. But this is not a case of "rabbid fan attack dev who couldn't reach what marketing promised", he put his hand in the fire to grab dollars, he got the money and he also got burnt.

It was so bad, for a while valve made a exception to its refund policy specifically for no man's sky, so that players could refund it even after dozens of hours, because the dev was hiding behind the "you have not played enough, you will unlock it later in the game" trick.
I think the point people are making is that WebAssembly can't be a response to the prior shortcomings of the CLR/JVM because so many of the things being identified as shortcomings aren't (at least not in the latest versions), and so many basic features that you'd want aren't in WebAssembly.

WASM exists mostly for political reasons as far as I can tell: it's something people who work on browsers can "own", vs outsource to other older teams with more historical baggage and different backing corporations. I mean, for WASM to be technically compelling you have to buy the idea that the best way to move the web forward is to enable applets-written-in-C without any useful form of DOM interop or GUI. That seems like a rather implausible claim.
Just so you are aware, in reality all the points you listed are exactly the results of what you are describing.

It becomes a one man show because anyone competent is going to run away from that mess right away.

New features become exponentially slower with time because you are re-implementing some ad-hoc SQL implementation in JavaScript of all things.

Initial performance is fine on your device setup, but drastically slows down over time when you pull in more data and do more complex things.

As someone else pointed out, you could benefit from actually learning SQL. There is a reason it's used.
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It's not going to work. If you're at the stage where you doubt the Holocaust, flatness of the earth, or what have you, there's really nothing much that can be done.

People that hold these views are ignorant. It's like claiming you can seat down and speak someone like Drumpf (a person that never read a history book) out of his stupidity.

I would have said racist or antisemitic, but when talking about Americans (if we're talking specifically about Americans), I really think it's pure ignorance.

European fascism and antisemitism is historic and profound, almost biological (read Pinsker's Autoemancipation! (1882), for example).

I think presently, many American neo-nazis (so called "alt-right), are tapping into it out of profound ignorance.

It's enough to hear conservatives (and neo-nazis) call liberal ideas Stalinistic, Nazi and communist (same breath) to figure out it's really just ignorance. Many don't know anything about either.

So who do you want to enter into a dialogue with?
Waymo’s autonomous vehicles are driving 25,000 miles every day
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What's the use of a lunar orbiting space station though? What science can you do in orbit of the moon that you can't do in orbit of the Earth?

Building a space station in Low Earth Orbit nearly killed NASA's budget for 20 years. Lofting all of that mass to lunar orbit would have added considerably to the cost. At least with the landers we got to bring back some regolith.
Please define 'delete' in this context. I'm afraid that if I transfer my data, the original will never be deleted.

Now I've doubled my problem.
> I should mention that Borg, like Kubernetes, relies on containers like Docker

Hmm, containers _like_ Docker, or Docker? I thought Google used lmctfy since long before Docker?
Ask HN: How to deal with a spam/automation attack on a small startup?
Hi HN,

We run a SaaS web app that's a productivity tool used by hundreds of small to mid size businesses. While emails aren't a core part of the service, transactional emails that alert and remind users of project activity are a big part in getting users active and using the platform.

Recently, we've had malicious users sign up under domains of Chinese email providers (frequently used by spammers), and automate sending thousands of invitations to bogus emails from the same domains. While this hasn't affected our servers or performance overall, it has resulted in our AWS SES bounce rates going exorbitantly high. Our account is now on probation.

We've deleted accounts, blocked IPs, and tried adding filtering and firewalls, but we're scratching our head on a good way to eliminate the potential for this issue going forward without being a detriment to the user experience for our regular users.

Have you experienced this with your company at all? And any suggestions to help fix this? Is there any recourse to finding out who is behind this and their motives?

Would greatly appreciate your help. Thanks so much in advance.
A web cookie can in some circumstances be considered PII: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personally_identifiable_inform...
> I've often wondered why people don't publish names for people who send death threats.

My guess is the threats are usually made anonymously-enough that that would be difficult to truly expose those who made them, and exposing them would also expose how pretty much all of them lack any credibility.
My point regarding megastores is that they squeeze out neighborhood stores, which they can do because corporate is willing to burn money to take over markets.

Sterile charmless megastores are a symbol of unrestrained corporatism.

I don't mind department stores, but I do have a problem with Walmart and their ilk.
Yes, but I use HiDPI displays on Linux and macOS as well.
What is game journalism doing right [if anything] that tech journalism can borrow or learn from?
Astroturfing is meant to look like a grassroots movement, a key difference seems to be actively concealing the source of funding or influencing group.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astroturfing
I think there is something very sad about people conducting harassment and sending threats to creators of....entertainment.

There is so much wrong with this cruel and unfair world, I understand how some people might want to cope through escapism. But when people get so belligerent about the creators and maintainers of fantasies, one has to wonder how much escapism has replaced the reality for these people.

I mean, who cares that Disney scrapped the Star Wars Expanded Universe in favor of their (imho) mediocre film sequels? The fans didn’t buy the Star Wars franchise - Disney did.

Same goes for NMS. It looked interesting until it came out and the reviews amounted to a collective shrug. So I passed.

The tragic irony to me is that as the relationship between the creators of entertainment and their fans becomes more toxic, the acts of the fans (or perhaps more accurately, jerks) serve to make these fantasy worlds as shitty as the real one.
If the EFF's points in this article are accurate, I would agree that the naming of such features will lead many to believe they are getting more privacy and security than the reality of the situation.

If there are any google people here, I would be very curious to hear your take on this article.
These are all rockets. What happened to attempts and more permanent space launch fixtures like: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_elevator

I am under the impression many other methods of getting into space have been hypothesized but never attempted.
How does error-prone GPS work on a technical level? Based on a description of GPS I would think it's kind of an "all or nothing" thing (no signal, or exact calculated position)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Positioning_System

I just don't get how you can get "low-fi GPS". What happens exactly? Either you receive the signal or you don't, and any bounces off the ground or something will just add a couple of meters.
I don't feel bad for the guy. Obviously death threats are unacceptable and the perpetrators deserve severe legal consequences, but the bottom line is that Sean Murray received a lot of money and publicity based on very public and explicit lies regarding the tech of his game. As an actual engineer, I think he is especially culpable because he knew he was spinning falsehoods for hype and pre-orders. I also have disdain for the guy on a professional level because it's really easy to bootstrap a product if you convincingly lie about all the tech but take everyone's money anyway then "ask forgiveness" after the fact. It's disgusting.

Edit for the downvoters: Where am I wrong? Do you disagree that he explicitly lied or do you disagree that people who issue online death threats deserve severe legal consequences?
That Chicago system is novel in several ways, but if you don't think it's as cool as other projects, that's fine.
The article is light on specifics, so no idea.
Lets pretend JS arrays had no queue api, why whouldn't I use native arrays to implement a queue?